Report birth times #160
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ntfs-3g does not return a birth date and time, even though the MFT does store this information:
File: example
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 851h/2129d Inode: 2732 Links: 1
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2025-07-23 11:34:52.687985900 +0200
Modify: 2025-06-12 21:31:43.185545100 +0200
Change: 2025-07-22 23:49:13.363593600 +0200
Birth: -
ntfs-3g already writes a birth date/time, but it doesn't show it.
ntfs3 by Paragon does show a birth date/time, but it has other problems like lack of mount options and lack of large cluster support (128K, 256K, 512K, 1M, 2M).
Please support the birth date and time. Thank you.
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unsound commentedon Sep 20, 2025
This is dependent on
statxsupport inlibfuseand can be implemented once a stablelibfuserelease is done withstatxfunctionality (it's currently present inlibfuseHEADbut not in a release tag). Until then I will close this as it is not possible to implement it untillibfusedoes.HT-7 commentedon Sep 20, 2025
I see, so it is a compatibility issue. If this is implemented in future, I suggest falling back to
stat()ifstatx()is unavailable on the user's system (for example if they have an older kernel or it doesn't work for whichever reason).