Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:40:02 GMT From: Joe Peterson <lavajoe@gentoo.org> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/118249: mv(1): moving a directory changes its mtime Message-ID: <200801281440.m0SEe2Nb038674@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/118249; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Joe Peterson <lavajoe@gentoo.org> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: bin/118249: mv(1): moving a directory changes its mtime Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:14:09 -0700 A couple of notes on this... * It does not happen with, e.g., ZFS, so it appears to be UFS-specific. * When doing cp -pR, it does not happen. * Along these lines, I tried moving files and dirs *across* file systems, and it does not happen. So it's the case of moving a dir to another dir in the *same* fs that invokes the issue. Since moving across filesystems (according to the man page) uses "rm -f dest && cp -pRP source dest && rm -rf source" rather than rename, this makes sense. P.S. I used the web-form to submit the bug, so the text box must treat the text as one long line (hence the 417 character line).
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