[lug] question about ext 2/3 fs

[Paul E Condon]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:03:50PM -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
> [...]
> >I rebooted my machine and all the frational seconds digits got set to
> >zero on my test files, so your surmise that these are not stored on
> >disk certainly has a lot of explanatory power.
> >
> >But these digits mess up my attempts to test a backup system. Does
> >anyone know of a way to clear them out of the OS that is faster than
> >rebooting?  Is there a system call, or better yet, a command line
> >utility? (sync doesn't clear internal OS mtime data)
> 
> Can't you just ignore them?

Well, I was hoping to use GNU coreutils for some of the functions, and
it does not ignore them. And, the way that it handles them causes it
to proform a muddled form of -u option in cp. 

> 
> Dave
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