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Re: modtime out of sync with network drive


From: Dave
Subject: Re: modtime out of sync with network drive
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:45:33 +0100
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Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <jPppm.64261$hv7.62519@newsfe10.ams2>,
>  Dave <dave@remove-spam-stringlake.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using emacs 22.2.1 on ubuntu 9.04. I have a network drive attached
>> (Buffalo linkstation pro duo - I think it's a samba share) and I have
>> the drive mounted automatically as a cifs filesystem. This works fine
>> for everything I do in ubuntu - permissions, running commands, copying etc.
>>
>> The only problem I have is that when I'm editing a file on the drive in
>> emacs, everytime I save the file the buffer recorded modtime and file
>> attribute modtime get out of sync. This means the next mod I make to the
>> buffer I get the 'file has changed on disc etc' message. This is a real
>> hassle.
>>
>> As an example, immediately after a recent save, the modtime as given by
>> visited-file-modtime was 9454, but by file-attribute was 9438. These are
>> both different to the value before the save which was 9407 for both.
> 
> Use NTP to ensure that the clocks on your computer and server are in 
> sync.
> 

Thanks - I'd thought ntp was already on on my drive, but it wasn't. That
seems to have worked.


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