Copy files to NFS directory loose time stamps

oldman talbotscott at cox.net
Sun Feb 26 21:12:43 UTC 2006


Paul Dickson wrote:

>On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:53:32 -0800, oldman wrote:
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>>Paul Dickson wrote:
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>>>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
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>>    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
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>No, the man page says -a preserves timestamps, but it's not.
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>	-Paul
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Hmm.. looks like I could have read more closely that cp -a is the same 
as -dpR.  Did you try specifying the --preserve anyway?
I tested it locally and it behaves as expected.  Perhaps you could try 
rcp or scp?

Scott




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