----- "Stephan von Krawczynski" <skraw at ithnet.com> wrote: > Sorry to say that. But if I rsync the trees they end up with _correct_ > (i.e. identical) timestamp displayed at standard "ls". > Whereas using self-heal shows different timestamps on "ls". > This at least proves that the stamps I mean are settable by user-space > tools (like rsync). Please clarify what you mean by "timestamp". As you know, there are three timestamp values, not one. And by "different", do you mean the timestamps are different on different servers, or that mtime and ctime are different on a single server? Vikas