Modification date won't update

2015-01-21 Thread DaneeL
Hi, I'd like to get some guidance on aufs behavior I noticed lately. I have 2 HDDs merged using aufs: mount -v -t aufs -o sum,create=mfs,dirs=/media/hdd1=rw:/media/hdd3=rw none /media/share I noticed lately that the modification time does not change if I copy new files into

Re: Modification date won't update

2015-01-21 Thread DaneeL
In my opinion that might be confusing as nothing changed on the topmost branch. Maybe just update the timestamp on the aufs mount on and not touch the topmost branch? Anyway, now that I know the logic I'll keep an eye out for this :) I don't expect it to happen often but might

Re: Modification date won't update

2015-01-21 Thread DaneeL
Thanks for the quick reply! I just changed to command to /media/hdd3=rw:/media/hdd1=rw swapping the hdd1 and hdd3 and it seems to be working. Thank you again for the help! Daniel DaneeLÂ -Â [1]danee...@gmail.com To boldly go where no one has gone before ... On Wed, Jan

Re: Modification date won't update

2015-01-21 Thread sfjro
DaneeL: I just changed to command to /media/hdd3=rw:/media/hdd1=rw swapping the hdd1 and hdd3 and it seems to be working. Thank you again for the help! My pleasure. But I am wondering, when a multiple writable branches exit, and aufs choose the lower one, then aufs should update the

Re: Modification date won't update

2015-01-21 Thread sfjro
Hello Daniel, DaneeL: I noticed lately that the modification time does not change if I copy new files into some directories. If a directory exits on both hdd1 and hdd3 and the files is copied into hdd3 - date does not change in aufs mount but changes on hdd3. If a directory exists on only

Re: Modification date won't update

2015-01-21 Thread sfjro
DaneeL: Example: Date will not update -- xbmc@doboz:~$ touch /media/share/_Series/CSI/testfile xbmc@doboz:~$ ls -l /media/hdd1/_Series/ | grep CSI drwxrwxr-x 2 xbmc xbmc 4096 Jan 5 12:02 CSI xbmc@doboz:~$ ls -l /media/hdd3/_Series/ |