Modified file Stamp changing by 1 sec??

[Joseph Watson]

I am running NTFS, and it does handle 1 sec resolution.

Still cant figure out what may be causing the modified file Stamp to 
changing?? 

On Wednesday August 25 2004 01:20 pm, Rafael Pivato wrote:
> The time resolution is related to the filesystem not just the OS (FAT32 vs
> NTFS).
> NT 4 can handle 1 sec of granularity (due to NTFS). Windows 9x can not (no
> odd second due to FAT32).
> I am not sure about *nix systems.
> 
> ---------
> Rafael Pivato
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joseph Watson" <jtwatson at linux-consulting.us>
> To: <smb-clients at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Modified file Stamp changing by 1 sec??
> 
> 
> > Yes I am going from Windows to Linux.  I think this NT 4.0 box does have a
> > file resolution better then 2 seconds, but I will have to check this.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -- 
> > Regards
> >
> > Joseph Watson
> >
> > On Wednesday August 25 2004 11:35 am, Arne Henningsen wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > when I was backing up files from Linux to Windows I had the same
> problem. It
> > > was because (some / all ???) Windows file systems have a file time
> > > resolutions of 2 seconds. Thus, if the file time on Unix was, e.g. 7:17,
> it
> > > had to be on Windows 7:16 or 7:18, and thus there was quite often a 1
> second
> > > difference. However, you copied the files in the opposite direction,
> aren't
> > > you? Maybe you can figure out, if this is also the reason for your
> problem.
> > > All the best,
> > > Arne
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 25 August 2004 17:20, Joseph Watson wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > >  I had a tap drive fail on my NT 4.0 server, so as a temperatry fix I
> used
> > > > smbmnt to mount the NT share on my linux box.  Then I used Kdar to
> backup
> > > > the files.  This worked fine, it took 24 hours to backup 30 Gigs.  The
> > next
> > > > day I did a incramentle backup, and it was 3.6 Gigs.  So I started
> looking
> > > > at what was changed and descovered that 90% of the backup are files
> that
> > > > the modified date was changed by 1 sec.  But the dates are sever
> months or
> > > > years on the past.  It is clear to me these files did not change, but
> yet
> > > > the date moved forward by 1 second.  I check the properties on the NT
> 4.0
> > > > server and the linux box for some of these files, and they show the
> same
> > > > date.  But the full backup shows they were a second older the day
> before.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone seen this kind of thing before?  I don't know if the
> problem is
> > > > with NT, smbmnt or Dar, so I thought I might ask.
> > >
> 
> 

-- 
Regards

Joseph Watson