Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:45:58 +0400 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: ReiserFS patch for updating ctimes of renamed files |
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Alex, are you convinced by jw? (I think I am.) Would you be willing to submit a patch for tar instead?
Hans
jw schultz wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:49:20AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > In theory it is cleaner and purer to do it the way we did. In practice, > >>Alex's problem seems like a real one, and I don't know how hard it is to >>change tar to do the right thing. We'll discuss it in a small seminar >>today. >> >> > >Updating ctime does seem messy and a bit irrelevant for the >atomic rename. You are modifying the directories not the >fricken file. This isn't DOS! But it would seem he does >indeed have an issue although i'm not sure what. I've never >used the listed-incremental option of tar and since the >manpage is incomplete <rant deleted> i don't know what it >actually does. However, i have found the use of ctime to be >terribly unreliable for file management and given what the >standards have to say on the issue it sounds like tar is >being abused or has a bug. > > > >
-- Hans
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