On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Matthew Flaschen
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Serge Zub wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
> Yes, but with one significant note -- only differs in directory structure
> and file contents are impotent.
> Any changes in the metadata (file attributes, ACL and others) MUST BE
> ignored by the comparing algorithm!
> For example, if some file's last modification time has been changed while
> the content of this file is not changed -- this will be treated as no
> changes exists for this file.
> Is it possible?
Please reply on list unless it needs to be private.
As the man page says, --compare "only compares metadata" If you need
full compares then use --compare-full. Of course this is very slow.
Matt Flaschen