Copy files to NFS directory loose time stamps

[Paul Dickson]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:53:32 -0800, oldman wrote:

> Paul Dickson wrote:
> 
> >If I do a "cp -a" to a NFS volume, the resulting files have the current
> >time stamp.  Do I need to change my mount options or is this a kernel bug?
> >
> >Current options in fstab: defaults,owner,rw,user,auto,hard,intr,exec
>
>     This is the way cp is supposed to work.  to preserve the time stamp 
> see the man
> page on cp and look for the option --preserve

No, the man page says -a preserves timestamps, but it's not.

	-Paul