On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 20:39 -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
Thanks, that explains it. I should have used ext3 or reiser. The problem is I had to reboot a machine with 10.2 and 500 GB drives. ext3 has been doing it's fsck check for 3 hours. I really can not be without my machines for many hours for the over 3 month fsck check. I have gone back to reiser on most systems. I guess I have been lucky. I have never had a data loss(Knock on wood) with reiser. I just do not have 2 more 1TB drives to change the XFS to reiser. The above makes things very clear.
You're changing file systems just because the mtime gets updated?
What are you doing that makes the mtime so important? Maybe you're using it incorrectly, and should be using something else instead?
I use it to record/keep a record of work done and what needs to be done. It is a personal preference. These disks are/were going to hold my work since 1984. I often do a ls -la on them. Having the time change from 1988 to 2008 really messes things up. I can not easily see what has been done. For example I client calls and want to know the last time I updated package XYZ. I quickly do a ls -la on the location and I can tell him. It was for example Jan 14 2001.
In any case, you can set the mtime to whatever you want using touch -m, so you can have your old timestamps back if you want
Yes, but to do this for 10,000 directories is a real pain.
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Boyd Gerber