when I display 'stat', it displays fields my platform doesn't know about.
Utilities "shouldn't" display fields that are specific to other platforms. Specifically, I'm not aware of a linux (or, for that matter, a POSIX) "Birth time". Things are confusing enough w/o adding in other platform info, like I used "." for input to stat and got: File: . Size: 8192 Blocks: 24 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 821h/2081d Inode: 33394 Links: 7 Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2017-10-09 10:56:22.969487183 -0700 ... -------------- Where Size/Blocks & IO Block are a bit confusing -- I.e. -- where does the "24" blocks come from? It looks like it is only 2 (x4096) blocks long from the ls output: Ishtar:/etc/sysconfig> ll -d . drwxrwxr-x 7 8192 Oct 9 10:53 ./ This is verified by looking at output from xfs_bmap. So .. where does the "24" blocks come from? Thanks... -linda
