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Date:      Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:02:16 -0500
From:      =?iso-8859-1?B?QnJ1bm8gTGF1euk=?= <brunolauze@msn.com>
To:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Device File Creation Time
Message-ID:  <BLU179-W85177DFBBF69A9D7B02C66C6980@phx.gbl>

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root@pcbsd:/dev # stat /dev/ada0=0A=
1895890688 97 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 97 0 "Feb 18 10:52:11 2014" "Feb 1=
7 09:36:43 2014" "Feb 17 09:36:43 2014" "Dec 31 17:59:59 1969" 4096 0 0 /de=
v/ada0=0A=
=0A=
root@pcbsd:/dev # stat /dev/ada0p2=0A=
1895890688 103 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 103 0 "Feb 18 10:52:05 2014" "Feb=
 17 09:36:43 2014" "Feb 17 09:36:43 2014" "Dec 31 17:59:59 1969" 4096 0 0 /=
dev/ada0p2=0A=
=0A=
root@pcbsd:/dev # stat /dev/ada0p3=0A=
1895890688 105 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 105 0 "Feb 18 10:52:21 2014" "Feb=
 17 09:36:43 2014" "Feb 17 09:36:43 2014" "Dec 31 17:59:59 1969" 4096 0 0 /=
dev/ada0p3=0A=
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As we can see all files in devfs reports Dec 31 1969 as creation time.=0A=
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Can we look to manage this value to know when a certain device was installe=
d?=0A=
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It would be really great to know when a disk was replaced.=0A=
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Would there be any other mechanism to accomplish this? 		 	   		  =



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