On Sat, 15 Sep 2012, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
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.
wouldn't really help her. I was pointing out that it is not enough to
worry about the file's time-stamp; the directory's time-stamp is also
altered. if her backup software is sensitive to the latter, then she's
no further along. if the backup software isn't sensitive to directory
time-stamps, then fine, my point is moot.
still, I'm surprised if there is no way to tell LO not to make a lock
file. googling suggests there might be, see 'libreoffice disable file
locking' or similar.
F.
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Felmon Davis
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