Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 23:37:44 +0100 From: Gilbert Cao <hika@bsdmon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preserve date when cp over smbfs Message-ID: <20051228223743.GA1075@bsdmon.com> In-Reply-To: <20051228215353.GA8743@echobase.hoth.dk> References: <20051228112558.GA79302@bsdmon.com> <20051228215353.GA8743@echobase.hoth.dk>
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--FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 10:53:53PM +0100, Martin P. Hansen wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Gilbert Cao wrote: > > When I copy a single file with the cp utility, with -p flag, to > > a smbfs mounted directory, the modification datetime is not preserved a= nd it > > is set to the current datetime : >=20 > I've had this problem too, cp was also emitting a warning about utimes: >=20 > mph# mount -t smbfs -o-Eiso8859-1:cp850,-f660 //mph@light/e$ /mnt > mph% cp -p INFO /mnt > cp: utimes: /mnt/INFO: Operation not permitted I don't have this warning when copying files. All my mount directories are owned by my current (the one who does the copy) >=20 > This was because I wasn't ``owner'' of the files. Adding the -u flag fixe= d this. so, according to the mount_smbfs(8), the -u flag is not needed in my case. >=20 > mph# mount -t smbfs -o-Eiso8859-1:cp850,-f660,-umph //mph@light/e$ /mnt >=20 > Now my modification time is preserved. The problem still persists in my case : My samba server is a FreeBSD machine (//mph@light/e$ <- I guess it is a Windows machine) But I still don't know why modification time is preserved when copying with gqview ... --=20 -------------------------------- (hika) Gilbert Cao http://www.miaouirc.com - MiaouIRC Project 2002-2003 http://www.bsdmon.com - The BSD DMON Power to serve IRC : #miaule at IRCNET Network -------------------------------- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDsxO3SyQfFTqAEpcRAln1AKCIma0fWquWnZRgkY8tsxWIiJ3cDQCglj83 S+6GccqT3HgXi/3OX8PHPYA= =DhAO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5--
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