Re: Database Create Date

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:00:37 +0200,
>   Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> wrote:
>
>> Στις Τρίτη 09 Ιανουάριος 2007 18:10, ο/η Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) έγραψε:
>>
>>> Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was able to find that in FreeBSD the -U in ls (1) does the job.
>>>> However i could not find any inode creation time related info for linux
>>>> (ext3).
>>>> Anyone has any clue on that?
>>>>
>>> I believe "ls -l" by default shows the created time, you can switch to
>>> show the last modified time using "ls -l --time=atime"
>>>
>
> Just another note on this, atime is the last access time. ctime is the real
> last modify time, mtime is another modify time that can be changed (which
> is useful after backups). atime is often disabled in ext3 file systems to
> reduce I/O, since it isn't all that useful.
>
I thought it was as well to begin with - but in "ls" on Linux there's a
separate "atime" and "access" value to the "show time" parameter in "ls"
- so if "atime" is the last access time, what's "access" mean?