In the last episode (Nov 17), David Gilbert said: > Another odd thing about snapshots is that the time shown by ls -l is > mostly current. Havn't found a rule for that yet. ls -lu seems to > show the creation time even tho the man page for ls says that's the > last access time. > > Since the snapshot itself shouldn't (logically) change after > creation, it would seem sensible to make the modification time stay > constant.
Could the mtime on the snapshot might be updated when the kernel has to add a block to the snapshot file because of a write to the parent filesystem? (note this only applies to the first write to a block; later writes don't affect the snapshot because it's already made a copy of the original data) > (also: why doesn't ls have a creation time option?) I think ls is running run out of option letters :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"