Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Tue, 25 Jan 2000 01:45:23 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | RE: inodes are no longer constant across VFAT mounts at kernel 2.2.14 |
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In <000101bf6690$92e0e800$0100a8c0@local1> Norman Back (norman.back@tesco.net) wrote: > Hi Jeffrey
>> > mv dir1 dir2 # dir2 has dir1's modification time >> >> dir2 should have an updated ctime. Is there a way to get tar >> to use ctime >> instead of mtime? If not, that should be added to tar.
> If only it did update ctime but I tried it with vfat and ext2 and it > doesn't. > As kernel does not update ctime or mtime, when a directory is moved, it is a > kernel problem not a tar problem.
Since VFAT does not have ctime it's not kernel problem. There are exist "Create Time" but it's NOT ctime: ctime is "Change Time", not create time. I'm not sure if it should be changed for ext2 - it can be bug in kernel but since it can not be done for VFAT such bugfix will not help you, does it ?
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