[TUHS] When/how did ctime change from inode "creation" to "change" time?

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Mar 12 12:33:14 AEST 2025


On Tue, 11 Mar 2025, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> As part of a discusion on the Linux kernel mailing list, there was an 
> assertion that ctime was orginally "creation time".

[...]

It's been "inode change time" for as long as I can remember (and that's 
since the 70s); I have no idea what the Penguins are on about, but I've 
never given them much credence anyway.

-- Dave


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