Paul Dickson wrote:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:53:32 -0800, oldman wrote:
>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?
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>>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.
-Paul
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