Comment 24 for bug 157396

Depends upon whether you see the behaviour of standard Unix as the measure.

Personally, I would say that if I wanted Unix I would buy Unix, and the only question important here is whether current defaults make sense or might be dangerous for the average Ubuntu user.

Cf. Wikipedia, s.v. "Software bug": "A software bug (or just "bug") is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, fault or "undocumented feature" in a computer program that prevents it from behaving as intended ... ." IMHO this applies here: If you copy a file, you expect your file creation date not to be destroyed. Current defaults prevents the software from behaving as intended by the bug filer.

Current defaults have massive destructive potential. Imagine the bug filer doing a backup and then formatting his main hard disk drive because he wants to install a new system. It will probably be only when he copies back his data that he will notice that all his creation dates have been destroyed, which will make it impossible to have his data sorted by creation date in the future.

Having your data intact, this goes far beyond a mere "wish".