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From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
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Subject: Re: Date/time with Aufs ?
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.204458.2433@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 91 20:44:58 GMT
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grimm@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>I seem to have a problem with CAP's Aufs. Whenever I copy a file
>from a Mac to the Aufs Sever the dates (i.e the creation date and
>the modification date) of the copy change to the time the file was
>copied. This doesn't happen if I copy a file from the Mac disk to 
>e.g. a floppy. Is this a bug or a feature, and if it is a bug is
>there a fix for it? (I'm using the Rutgers Version - RU-CAP2)
>Any help would be appreciated.

This is one of those things buried deep in the documentation. UNIX
doesn't know about creation date; there is no place to put it in
the file information. There are only access time, modification time,
and change of i-node time. So aufs just goes for the earliest one.
Blech.

pr
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