Re: cross-platform backup tool Same files from different source dir causes spurious diff files

[Robert Nichols]

On 2/8/22 12:22 AM, Eric Lavarde wrote:
> Hi,
>
> even if it's not the inodes, it might be any kind of metadata (ownership, time, 
> access rights, etc). I could for example imagine that the LVM snapshot is 
> readonly, which would make rdiff-backup consider that there is a change, as 
> Leland already stated.

Mounting a filesystem read-only does _not_ change the permissions that
are seen for the individual files. The open() for writing is blocked by
the read-only filesystem before ever getting to the point of checking
the file permissions.

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