On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:17:15AM -0400, Yasushi Okubo wrote: > What we are having problem is that when rsync gets kicked off and > transfers one file to the destination, this action changes ctime of > "all" files in the same directory and sub directories on the > destination side
Rsync only preserves the mtime for the files it transfers -- atime gets set to "now" if the file is transferred or if the file was scanned for some reason (e.g. --checksum was used). The ctime is set by the system if something in the inode was changed. This could mean something as simple as rsync needing to set the mode of the file to match the mode of the source file, for instance. There is no way to preserve ctime using standard library calls, so this is not something that will ever change. There is a diff in the patches dir that adds the ability to preserve the atime, however (at the cost of some extra memory for all transfers, even if you aren't preserving the atime). ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
