I did not think the patch series for support of create time was merged yet. The cifs filesystem can expose the birth time through extended attributes but as far as I know there is no way to save this on Linux. Has something changed? Probably best to ask about this on linux fs-devel mailing list On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Enda <enda_k2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Copying a file using cp on a NTFS filesystem to an ext4 filesystem does not > copy the birth time: > > $ cp --preserve=all ntfs.txt ~ > > $ stat ~/ntfs.txt > ... > Birth: - > > > > -- Enda > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Thanks, Steve -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html