Re: [Bug-cpio] "File <name> was modified while being copied"

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Peter Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,

Hi Peter,
 
> This may not be the right place for this question, but I am not having much
> luck elsewhere ...

Don't worry, it is the right place.
 
> When I use GNU cpio version 2.5 under SuSE 9.0 to copy a Windows file which
> has uppercase letters in the path or filename, I get the warning:
> "File <name> was modified while being copied".
> 
> This is a bit of a problem as it gives me about 3000 unnecessary lines in
> the log file every night.

This diagnostics is issued if mtime of the file changes during the
copying. This field is changed by operations that modify the file,
hence the diagnostics. 
 
> This did not happen when using the same script with GNU cpio version 2.4.2
> under RedHat 7.3.

Older versions of cpio did not check for file modifications during copying.
 
> Is this a cpio feature, a SuSE feature or a Samba feature? How can I find
> how to turn it off?

The message means that the file was *actually* modified while being
copied, and there is no way to turn it off. It means that the resulting
archive may be inaccurate or incomplete.

Regards,
Sergey