[RSYNC] bad modify/change time set by rsync ?
LEGOND Fabrice
fabrice.legond@gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 19:54:00 GMT 2015
Hi,
> --modify-window
>
> When comparing two timestamps, rsync treats the timestamps as being
> equal if they differ by no more than the modify-window value. This
> is normally 0 (for an exact match), but you may find it useful to
> set this to a larger value in some situations. In particular, when
> transferring to or from an MS Windows FAT filesystem (which
> represents times with a 2-second resolution), --modify-window=1 is
> useful (allowing times to differ by up to 1 second).
>
> Yes, (ex)FAT just doesn't have the resolution to represent some
> timestamps, specifically it can only record even seconds.
Yes, that were also a guess at one moment in my testing time, but was
discarded because, as I said, I had the very same problem on a ntfs
partitions which have far greater precision. So is this normal ?
fabrice
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