Hi Eric,
The change-time information is there as it shows up properly in Windows
Explorer. In addition, files are okay under Cygwin; the problem is only
with directories.
FYI, I want to use rsync under Cygwin to backup files but it's causing
all of my directories to be resetted to the epoch time.
-Steven
On 10/11/2010 5:05 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 10/10/2010 03:06 AM, Steven Lee wrote:
On an IOMega 500 GB Home Network Hard Drive with a FAT32 partition, all
of the directories are showing up as "1969-12-31 16:00" (or essentially
no date), but when viewing the directory in Windows Explorer,
Any idea what could be wrong?
There's the issue. FAT is an inherently metadata-poor file system,
which lacks a lot of information. Then Windows mistakenly treats
stat()'s ctime as creation-time instead of change-time. Cygwin MUST
fake timestamps for information that is not present in the native
filesystem, so it's easier to fake the epoch (0 seconds since Jan 1
1970, adjusted for your timezone) than it is to fake any other date.
If you have further questions, you should raise them with the cygwin
list, as there is nothing that coreutils can do about the inherent
lack of information in your filesystem nor with cygwin's choice of how
to fake that information.
