Peculiarities with tar

Andrew Markebo andrew.markebo@telia.com
Wed Apr 16 11:26:00 GMT 2003


[...]
|> | - Is there a "last accessed date" on FAT32 partitions?
|> | - Does that change as McAfee reads files?
|> | - Shouldn't the fact that *tar* reads files also affect the date?
|> 
|> The data affected IMHO should only be raised when it is changed, not
|> read, problem could be that because fat32 don't have a read-tag, it is
|> mapped to changed.. and therefore the file gets 'updated' when read.
|> 
|>        /Andy
|
|  In other words: "Incomplete filesystem error"

I think rather incomplete filesystem incompability wit mcafee version
and cygwin and phase of moon ;-) Did you try disabling mcafee?

If my memory doesn't fail me as usual, it was fixed by upgrading
mcafee, check the archives.

        /Andy

    
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