Re: [Duplicity-talk] subsecond mtime not preserved in archives

[Kenneth Loafman]

Peter Schuller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed that --verify always generated different mtime for all files
> in a backup set when run on ZFS. Changing the printout to report
> un-prettified mtimes yields:
> 
> Difference found: File test has mtime Mon Sep 10 22:18:54 2007 
> (1189455534.39), expected Mon Sep 10 22:18:54 2007 (1189455534)
> 
> Thus, the problem seems to be that sub-second mtimes are not preserved
> in the backup archives.
> 
> Does anyone have opinions as to whether the proper fix to this should
> be to store subsecond mtimes in the archives (if that is even possible
> given that it's tar files), or whether the comparison should simply be
> made rounded?

This happened on Windows as well.  I've got that down as a bug, but no
fix for it, yet.  My approach for Windows was to truncate to the nearest
integer.  It should be in CVS, but may be conditioned for Windows only.

...Ken

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