created and modifiy dates all the same

[parallax]

Using a Terabyte NAS in a mac environment, all the files on the Buffalo show same creation/modified dates. driving backup crazy.

What's going on? buffalo is in FAT mode, as suggested by factory.

 

Wierdness is that files inside folders get new creation/modified dates after being used, but the enclosing folder dates do not change.

 

Jay Gamel

[Jotin]

Make sure you set the time on the unit to the time of your PC. And the NAS in XFS format. It cannot be formated in FAT32. 

[parallax]

Thanks. that's going to be a chore but worth it. Why did the manual say stay with FAT32 for the mac folks?

[Jotin]

It may have ment that for the external hard drives but the internal drives for the unit cannot be formated to any other format by XFS. 

[louie29]

I have sort of the same question, but setting the time of the Linkstation to the computer doesn't change anything.

 

I'm transfering many many folders and files from an NTFS drive to a Linkstation.  But when I do, the folder and file "created" dates on the Linkstation copies are set to the original NTFS "modified" dates instead of their original NTFS "created" dates.  I've read that this is because XFS doesn't use "created" dates, and that there is no way around this. 

 

But I've also noticed that if I create a folder on the Linkstation from Windows, then modify it the next day (by adding a file), the folder "created" date stays at yesterday, and only the "modified" date changes to today.  Doesn't that mean that XFS is honoring "created" dates in some way, or am I missing something?

I'm still trying to figure out how to do the transfers from NTFS to the Linkstation retaining the original NTFS "created" dates, using this observation, but I haven't found a solution.  Is there a solution?  I really need to retain the original NTFS created dates.