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by 0x09 3390 days ago
The BSDs, Windows, OS X, and Mac OS classic and their corresponding filesystems all supported this for decades. Linux is the only major holdout, because according to Linus, "it's all totally useless and people can't even agree on a name." [1]

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/397445/

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Yet creation time is still useless in this case, because forging it is still trivial [0][1].

A chain of custody with extremely rigorous procedures and protocols is the only reason a forensic expert has some level of trust.

Without that, and with incentive, this becomes nothing more than a farce.

[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/203154/how-to-change-created-or-mo...

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=touch&sektion=1