Peter Koch wrote:
> Dear Joerg:
>
> Thank's for the quick response. In the meantime I have tried
> star which I had not used before. Wonderful programm but its
> decision on which files will be included into an incremental
> backup seems to be based on the same algorithm that gtar is
> using - i.
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> > What if I change the kernel and prevent ctime-changes if only st_nlink
> > was changed?
>
> Wouldn't it be easier, and have less unknown impact, to change the
> program making the hard links to read-link-write ctime, preserving it?
If you did change the ke
Dear tar-experts:
I have learned that changing the kernel to not modify ctime
when just the nlink-value has changed in an inode was a nice
idea but has some unwanted side-effects.
Also it's too hard for me to implement. Whenever a changed
inode is written to disk, its ctime value will be set to
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