In <000101bf6690$92e0e800$0100a8c0@local1> Norman Back (norman.back@tesco.net) wrote:
> Hi Jeffrey
>> > mv dir1 dir2 # dir2 has dir1's modification time
>>
>> dir2 should have an updated ctime. Is there a way to get tar
>> to use ctime
>> instead of mtime? If not, that should be added to tar.
> If only it did update ctime but I tried it with vfat and ext2 and it
> doesn't.
> As kernel does not update ctime or mtime, when a directory is moved, it is a
> kernel problem not a tar problem.
Since VFAT does not have ctime it's not kernel problem. There are exist
"Create Time" but it's NOT ctime: ctime is "Change Time", not create time.
I'm not sure if it should be changed for ext2 - it can be bug in kernel but
since it can not be done for VFAT such bugfix will not help you, does it ?
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