In article <1265@felix.sublink.org> of comp.os.linux,
  eb@felix.Sublink.Org (Enrico Badella) writes:
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> 
> The only possible critic to the Unix filesystem is that the creation date
> of a file is missing; it could be usefull for security considerations.
> 
> Another 2 cents...
> 

The standard UNIX filesystems store three dates: file creation, last
file modification, and last file access.  Is it something else you are
looking for?  Note that this is *not* true for the minix, extfs and
xiafs filesystems on Linux.  It *is* true for ext2fs.

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