source side

[Juergen Busam]

I've ran a "ls -altr" on the source before syncing and after it and it
definitely shows that the timestamps of the source side changed after
rsync has finished. The destination side gets the timestamps of the
source side before the sync.

Example:

bevor sync:
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       572928 Feb 23 22:26 Accept_PatXfer.dot

after sync:
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       572928 Feb 23 21:26 Accept_PatXfer.dot

destination shows
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       572928 Feb 23 22:26 Accept_PatXfer.dot

after the rsync run.


The "problem hereby is, that the sourceside is mounted readonly!
Nevertheless the timestamp gets changed...


Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:27:42AM +1000, Juergen Busam wrote:
> 
>>I still have my formerly mentioned timestamp problem. IS rsync changing
>>the timestamps on the sourceside?
> 
> 
> No, rsync doesn't do anything on the source-side except read things
> (unless --remove-sent-files is specified, in which case it also removes
> things).  If your timestamps on the source are changing, something else
> is changing them.  (You may wish to verify that the timestamps on the
> source are the ones that are changing and not the destination -- rsync
> updates the files when the timestamps are different, but you don't know
> for sure which side has the changed timestamps unless you investigate.)
> 
> ..wayne..
> 
>