Re: [PATCH] copy: adjust fiemap handling of sparse files

2011-03-30 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 28/03/11 23:06, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 18/03/11 16:04, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 18/03/11 13:48, Chris Mason wrote: Excerpts from Pádraig Brady's message of 2011-03-18 09:19:44 -0400: On 18/03/11 12:04, Chris Mason wrote: Excerpts from Jim Meyering's message of 2011-03-18 07:52:43 -0400:

Re: [PATCH] copy: adjust fiemap handling of sparse files

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Mason
Excerpts from Pádraig Brady's message of 2011-03-30 07:02:44 -0400: On 28/03/11 23:06, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 18/03/11 16:04, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 18/03/11 13:48, Chris Mason wrote: Excerpts from Pádraig Brady's message of 2011-03-18 09:19:44 -0400: On 18/03/11 12:04, Chris Mason

Re: [PATCH] copy: adjust fiemap handling of sparse files

2011-03-30 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 17/03/11 07:24, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 19:55:56 Pádraig Brady wrote: On 16/03/11 19:18, Mike Frysinger wrote: well, in the bug report i was working with, we were seeing data loss. i wonder if it'd be possible to detect the fs/kernel version and error out when

bug#8380: tar u ignores files if archive modification time = folder modification time

2011-03-30 Thread Karsten Loesing
Hello list, today I found that tar u doesn't update an archive unless the folder's modification time is newer than the archive's modification time. So, for example, creating a folder files/ with file-1, creating a test.tar from it, creating another file files/file-2, and updating test.tar won't

bug#8381: cp inconsistency

2011-03-30 Thread Thomas Hofmann
Hello, two issues: 1) manpage of cp contains obsolete email-address for bug-reporting 2) cp inconsistency when copying a directory to a) a non existing directory, or b) to an existing directory. Further elaborated below. cp -a SOME_DIR NOT_YET_EXISTING_DIR results in a new directory directly

bug#8380: tar u ignores files if archive modification time = folder modification time

2011-03-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/30/2011 06:13 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: Hello list, today I found that tar u doesn't update an archive unless the folder's modification time is newer than the archive's modification time. Thanks for the report; however, this would better be reported to the bug-tar list, since tar is

bug#8380: tar u ignores files if archive modification time = folder modification time

2011-03-30 Thread Pádraig Brady
tags 8380 + notabug I suggest you resend this to bug-...@gnu.org cheers, Pádraig.

bug#8381: cp inconsistency

2011-03-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/30/2011 05:56 AM, Thomas Hofmann wrote: Hello, two issues: 1) manpage of cp contains obsolete email-address for bug-reporting The man page is generated from 'cp --help' output; on my Fedora 14 machine, I see this for 'man cp' REPORTING BUGS Report cp bugs to

bug#8381: cp inconsistency

2011-03-30 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 30/03/11 12:56, Thomas Hofmann wrote: Hello, two issues: 1) manpage of cp contains obsolete email-address for bug-reporting That is fixed in current versions 2) cp inconsistency when copying a directory to a) a non existing directory, or b) to an existing directory. Further elaborated

bug#8381: closed (Re: bug#8381: cp inconsistency)

2011-03-30 Thread Thomas Hofmann
2) cp inconsistency when copying a directory to a) a non existing directory, or b) to an existing directory. Further elaborated below. cp -a SOME_DIR NOT_YET_EXISTING_DIR results in a new directory directly containing each entry of SOME_DIR while: CP -a SOME_DIR EXISTING_DIR results in

bug#8381: closed (Re: bug#8381: cp inconsistency)

2011-03-30 Thread Paul Eggert
On 03/30/2011 08:25 AM, Thomas Hofmann wrote: I would like that a) cp -a dir dest_dir does what b) cp -a dir previously_not_existing_dest_dir does already Doesn't cp -aT dir dest_dir do what you want?