On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:43:56AM -0800, Glenn Faden wrote: > Jan Parcel wrote: > > 2. Basing the decision to copy upon diffs rather than date. > > I don't understand the advantage of diff vs. -newer. The latter is > simpler so why not use it? My suggested workaround also deals with the > case where the copy doesn't exist yet.
One reason to not use a timestamp is to avoid issues with any future fix for the RFE that zones' clocks should be able to have time offsets w.r.t. the global zone. Nico --