Copy files to NFS directory loose time stamps

[Paul Dickson]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:29:32 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:08:10 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:18:07 +1030, n0dalus wrote:
> > 
> > > On 2/26/06, Paul Dickson <paul at permanentmail.com> 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?
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Are you able to `touch` the files on the volume? (eg `touch -r file
> > > /copy/of/file/on/nfs` ).
> > 
> > "mv" has the same problem.
> > 
> > I can copy the timestamps with touch:  touch -r old <nfs>/new
> 
> I filed a bugreport:
>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183208
> 
> It includes an attachment of an ethereal dump of the network traffic.
> The timestamp is transfered (mtime) and acknowledged.  Bother client and
> server are running the same kernel version, 1977_FC5 (although server was
> initially running 1955_FC5).

Installing kernel-2.6.15-1.2008_FC5 on the client side resolves the
problem.  Thanks.

	-Paul