Re: [PATCH v1] ntfs: report birth time for symbolic links

[Namjae Jeon]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 10:18 AM Xuewen Wang <wangxuewen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> NTFS already loads the creation time into i_crtime and reports it through
> ntfs_getattr(). However, the symbolic-link inode operations omit getattr,
> so statx() with AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW falls back to generic_fillattr() and
> does not return STATX_BTIME for the link itself.
>
> Use ntfs_getattr() for symbolic links to expose their stored creation time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xuewen Wang <wangxuewen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Applied it to #ntfs-next.
Thanks!