On 15/09/2012 at 19:38, Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote: > question: doesn't the Linux file system (ext2; ext3) register access > time to a directory? in that case, wouldn't writing a file to a > directory register in the directory's time-stamp?
Yes, they does. On filesystem-level, directory is (roughly speaking) special file with names of other files. If you create file, then this list gets updated (directory modification time changes). If you remove that file, then it gets updated again. I don't know about OP backup tools (did not read whole thread), but rsync has --ignore-times and --size-only command-line options which may come handy in such situation. -- Best regards Mirosław Zalewski -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
