Copy files to NFS directory loose time stamps
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Feb 27 01:58:19 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 09:53 -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
> >
> > -Paul
> >
> >
> >
> 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
>
cp -a also preserves the time stamp. The man page for cp says
-a, --archive
same as -dpR
I would suspect this is related to nfs and not the cp command.
The mount options may have an affect, as well as needing to be 100%
certain the destination has proper permissions.
> Scott
>
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