Currently, the Linux Semantic Agent (LSA) uses the creation time as the value for ctime. We’d like it to use the modified metadata time as its value, but there might be unknown complications from modifying this value. Instead, we have provided a new NSS command line CtimeIsMetadataModTime option.
This option allows an administrator to select that the ctime value should be the modified metadata time rather than the creation time.
For more information on how to use NSS command line commands, see Using NSS Server Console Commands and Utilities in the Novell Storage Services File System Administration Guide for OES.
The CtimeIsMetadataModTime option is set in /opt/novell/nss/conf/nssstart.cfg and can be set from nsscon, as follows:
nss/(no)CtimeIsMetadataModTime