12-15-2008
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Saint Paul, MN USA / BSD, CentOS, Debian, OS X, Solaris
Posts: 712
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Hi.
My reading of this:
Code:
`--atime-preserve'
Tells `tar' to preserve the access time field in a file's inode
when reading it.
-- excerpt from info tar
leads me to believe that this on the source side, not on the target side. In other words, tar obtains the inode times, reads the file into the accumulation of the output file, then resets the inode times to the original.
Some filesystems are set not to even record the access times, since it is often of limited value and causes disk activity.
If my supposition is correct, then one could use touch to reset the access times on the target -- tedious, but doable.
Perhaps someone will stop by with a definitive answer ... cheers, drl
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