Copy files to NFS directory loose time stamps

[oldman]

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
>
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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

Scott