[Box Backup-dev] Re: [Box Backup] ChrisMerge_1828

[Ben Summers]

Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, E.W. Peter Jalajas wrote:
>
>> Piling on here a bit...why is it again that directories have that odd
>> 1969 datestamp?  Surely the last modified date must be fairly readily
>> available in there somewhere. (I personally don't care much, but it's
>> always one of those awkward moments when I look at bbackupquery  
>> output
>> with my client customers).
>>
>> 00000049 f----- 2006-06-21T11:31:52 00714 HPLicen.zip
>> 0000004a -d---- 1969-12-31T19:00:00 00000 Audio Recordings
>> 0000004b -d---- 1969-12-31T19:00:00 00000 sdfghjk
>> 00000074 -d---- 1969-12-31T19:00:00 00000 SOLAR
>> 00000077 -d---- 1969-12-31T19:00:00 00000 surveys
>> 0000007b -d---- 1969-12-31T19:00:00 00000 Timesheets
>>
>
> Ben, why is it that we zero the modification time on directories? Just
> because we don't diff/patch them?

mtime on a directory is not useful, and would result in lots of  
updates to metadata in the parent directory on the store.

The underlying zero time should probably not be printed for  
directories. Spaces to pad?

Ben