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Files copied/moved to f2fs partition don't preserve birth time/creation time #6

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@Machion

I tested this on Linux Mint (kernel 6.8) and Manjaro (kernel 6.12).

I put in a USB stick formated it with f2fs and copied or moved files (from ext4 or btrfs partition). Before the files had a date in the birth time field, after copying/moving not.
Formatting the stick with ext4 or btrfs preserves the (not so real) birth time.

Has this something to do with the long story of Posix/Unix/Linux and not giving importance to this data?
(Nice summary of this topic: https://blog.marbu.eu/posts/2019-02-17-btime/)

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