> There is only one date on a file on a VFAT partition and as every command
> down to the DOS copy command preserves that date you cannot see what's
> been changed.
This is WRONG. VFAT (but NOT plain old MS-DOS FAT !!!) has three times as it
should be: Modification time (this is old good MS-DOS "modification time";
preserved by copy), Creation time (not preserved by copy) and "Last access
time" (date actual -- time is not stored; not preserved by copy). At least it
is on disk -- I'm not sure if Linux's VFAT driver supports them...
> Hopefully the ctime is being set to now (or now-1); this is the
> _right_ thing to do.
Why so ? Why not use existing three times ? Even if "Last access time" is not
time but date...
> There is a good feature of VFAT (I _DONT_ believe it !!! a GOOD feature in
> VFAT!!!!!!!) in the archive bit. This would provide reliable incrememtal
> backups ... but it can't be mapped onto Unix semantics.
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