On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:53:32 -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
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
No, the man page says -a preserves timestamps, but it's not.
-Paul