According to this Phoronix article, Linux should support the birth time attribute in the NFS server since 5.18. However, it doesn’t show up in the stat output when looking at the file through the NFS mount, or elsewhere (at least, the Dolphin file browser and also a macOS client):
% stat file
File: file
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 1048576 regular empty file
Device: 0,70 Inode: 103416894 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1000/ saiko) Gid: ( 100/ users)
Access: 2023-12-17 03:22:45.368950609 +0100
Modify: 2023-12-17 03:22:45.368950609 +0100
Change: 2023-12-17 03:22:45.368950609 +0100
Birth: -
What gives? Running stat on the server directly, it shows the attribute. The backing file system is ext4, kernel 6.5.12. The client is using kernel 6.1.63.
Which version of stat do you have? I get the same blank result locally on ext4 and btrfs filesystems (not over nfs) using stat 8.30 on an rpi4 (raspbian, 5.10.103-v8+).
Seems to work fine with stat 8.32 on xfs on a spot instance I have, running Rocky 9 (5.14.0-362.13.1.el9_3.x86_64).
I thought there might be more info in the changelog:
info coreutils aqstat invocationaqbut I’m not seeing it.I have 9.3. It works for me on a local file system on the client as well as the server, just not through NFS.