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Greetings!
I am new to Arch, but not necessarily to Linux. I have recently moved back from the Windows world and would like to bring over all of my data files and documents from NTFS. The problem I am having with this involves creation timestamps. I would like to preserve these in the Linux system. Strangely, many linux filesystems do not track this piece of information about a file. I found that JFS has many benefits including creation timestamp meta data. I set up a spare drive with JFS and rsynced my NTFS data over to it, only to find I couldn't see how to get or set this creation timestamp through 'ls' or otherwise. I did find a thread somewhere that mentioned you could use jfs_debugfs to see the creation timestamp value as di_otime if you provided that tool the files inode. But it is hexadecimal format and this seems a rather convoluted way to access this information, not to mention doing anything programmatically on a mass scale with the creation timestamp information for a file.
Is there any higher level way to get and set the creation timestamp data on a file in JFS? Getting would be sufficient if I could verify that the creation timestamp is getting preserved properly after the rsync from NTFS to JFS.
Thank you for any assistance.
Last edited by Cleophas (2009-03-03 04:33:31)
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