[softwarelist] Re: SyncDiscs - a new version (1.20)
- From: Brian Carroll <briancarroll@xxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 12:43:39 +0100
In article <e4H9XXBOxo5LFw+N@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Pilling
<flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <51146994bfchris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris
> Johnson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >It will certainly be useful to have an example when it next
> >arises, in terms of file size, type, and whether an archive
> >of some sort.
> Oh that's a good idea. Does SD treat archives as files or look
> at their contents...
An interesting discussion! I will be doing a compare every day
from now on to try to feed back something useful. I am fairly
sure the time-discrepancy files are not archives.
> >There is the problem with the NAS device I have (NSLU2),
> >where RISC OS sees the time of copy on the files on the
> >secondary.
> Often file systems have three time stamps, create, modify and
> access. Potential for seeing the wrong one, or synchronising
> all three - and of course RISC OS only knows about one time
> stamp.
There is also the anomaly (IMHO) in the RISC OS filer that copies
of a directory are given the datestamp of the copy time rather
than retain their original. I don't see how this would affect
the current question though.
Brian.
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