From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francesco Biscani Subject: Re: fsck.reiser4 wrong size error (?) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:45:55 +0200 Message-ID: <200408132245.55213.frbiscani@jumpy.it> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Cc: Matt Stegman Hi, On Friday 13 August 2004 22:26, Matt Stegman wrote: > The ctime will be updated. 'cp -a' cannot preserve the ctime field. > Whether or not your application uses the ctime is something you'll have to > determine (backup software usually does, for example). I was thinking of gentoo's package system, which uses mtimes to detect if a file belonging to a certain package has been modified or overwritten. This way when uninstalling the package, that particular file is not removed because his mtime differs from the one present in the packages database. cp man page says that the -p switch, implied by -a, preserves "the original files' owner, group, permissions, and timestamps." So the question is: is mtime included in "timestamps"? > cp also does not copy EAs or ACLs, or any attributes set by chattr (not > applicable to reiser4). Any other attributes or permissions unique to > reiser4 would also not be copied. This would not certainly be a problem. Thanks very much, Francesco