Kevin Korb wrote > Correct. rsync doesn't pay attention to ctime as it can't set ctime to > arbitrary values.
The mail I was referring to indeed mentioned mtimes, sorry for that. So, as far as I understand your replies, there is no way to prevent rsync from comparing at least size/mtime of each and every file because file contents can change without any flag/time/whatever of the directory the file is in changes? That's strange, shouldn't sth. change in the directory information if a files status in the directory changes? Sth. like the archive flag in FAT/NTFS? The problem is that even just comparing sizes/mtimes can take hours on a 12 TB raid of there are hundreds of directories and each has 25 million files in it :-o so I hoped for a shortcut for unchanged directories. cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
