Hi Daniel et al,... On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:13:17 -0600 "Daniel Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > After playing around with dos filetime and fake directory > > > create filetimes without any success: Can anyone enlighten me > > > in this > topic? > > What systems are in use? I ask because I had a similar > always-updating problem when mirroring a website onto a FAT32 > partition. FAT's timestamps are only kept to 2-second precision > (IIRC), but the website was on EXT2. The FAT system appeared to > round the timestamps *down*, so every time wget compared them it > thought my copy was old. I found that putting a 'touch *' at the > end of that script took care of the problem. Hmmm, I remember problems like these with FAT, too. Anyhow, in this situation, I'm moving files from NTFS(NT4) to XFS(Linux), I'm not sure whether there is a similar timestamp problem about NTFS (guess there's not). By now, finally I've ended up with two options to get around this timestamp problem: (a) running "xcopy /m" as recommended here (thanks Dan!) to copy files depending on whether or not the archive bit is set or (b) using rsync to get the files updated, with rsync running on the NT or the Linux machine to get the job done. Speaking about rsync and even while probably being a little off-topic with this on a SAMBA list: Is there a way to speed up the "building file list" process while starting rsync? The problem about the file system I am about to copy is: There are literally millions of files (1000 directories, 1000 subdirectories each, several files in each of the subdirectories), so building file lists in rsync takes astoundingly long. Anyhow, thanks for all your inspirations; have a nice sunday anyone! Cheers, Kris -- Kristian Rink -- Programmierung/Systembetreuung planConnect GmbH * Strehlener Str. 12 - 14 * 01069 Dresden 0351 4657702 * 0176 24472771 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
