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ext2, ext3 and reiser don't keep track of a file's creation time. what
people call "creation time" is (as you point out) something completely
different.
a better name for "creation time" is "the last time at which the inode
was modified". so rather than keeping track of when the file was
created, it keeps track of things like:
* last date the file was mv'd
* last date a file's attr was changed
* last date the file's perms were changed
* last date the file's ownership or grownership was changed
stuff like that.
sorry to say, if you want to keep track of a file's original creation
date, you'll need to keep track of that yourself.
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