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Re: GNU tar Bug or problem preserving ctime values
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: GNU tar Bug or problem preserving ctime values |
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Date: |
06 Nov 2001 12:10:49 +0100 |
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address@hidden (Tom Crane) writes:
|> Dear All,
|> I am trying to copy a filesystem with GNU tar and preserve the file's
|> ctime settings but without success.
You can't. ctime is not settable by user space, the kernel will always
set this to current time if the inode changes.
Andreas.
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