On Thursday, 12.06.2003 at 12:12 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:

> Unix, in the inode allocated to each file, keeps three time stamps,
> collectively known as "mac"time stamps as they are "data
> Modification", "data Access", and "inode Change" times.
> 
> Not all OS's keep these same 3 time stamps, yet to make nfs mounts
> work (I presume ncpmount is really doing an underlying nfs mount or
> something similar) the mactimes have to mimiced for use within a unix
> system.
> 
> I can see a maping of "ctime" for example just tracking "mtime", or
> maybe registering the date and time of the ncpmount command or ???
> Anything that might throw tar off when it goes and looks "has any
> change occured".
> 
> Just a thought with no facts.

OK, some stuff for me to check out - thanks Jon.

Dave.
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