Re: inode allocation

On Oct 27, 2003  20:43 +0000, Drew P. Vogel wrote:
> Given two lists of files I'm trying to determine which files are new,
> removed, or modified. On ext2 there isn't a straight-foward way to
> determine whether a file is modified or removed and recreated if the
> removal and creation happens between the times the two lists are created.

But at the same time you can't easily determine just from the name and the
inode number whether the files have been modified either.  You need to
compare file size, mtime, ctime, and then a checksum and/or byte-by-byte
comparison (cmp, diff, etc).

You could just use something like rsync and save yourself the effort.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/



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