Subject: Re: bug#14880: cp copy birth time

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:14:52 +0100

forcemerge 14703 14880
stop

On 07/16/2013 03:42 PM, Enda 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: -

While not exactly the same issue,
it's probably due to the same reason
I mentioned to you in http://bugs.gnu.org/14703
So I'm merging these for now.

thanks,
Pádraig.