Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: have restore set atime/mtime

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That's not a bad idea.  In my case it was all owned by the same user
(media storage) so the only thing of interest was the timestamps.

I can whip up a patch to do that as well.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:09 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dan Merillat posted on Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:33:46 -0400 as excerpted:
>
>> The inode is already found, use the data and make restore friendlier.
>
> Unless things have changed recently, restore doesn't even restore user/
> group ownership, let alone permissions.  IOW, atime/mtime are the least
> of the problem (particularly if people are running noatime as is
> recommended, unless you really need it for some reason).
>
> It simply creates the files it restores as the owner/group it is run as
> (normally root), using standard umask rules, I believe.
>
> So if you're going to have it start restoring metadata at all, might as
> well have it do ownership/perms too, if it can.  Otherwise atime/mtime
> are hardly worth bothering with.
>
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