[Gluster-users] AFR dates problem

[Krishna Srinivas]

Keith,
It was fixed in patch-804.
Krishna

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Keith Freedman <freedman at freeformit.com> wrote:
> I have a problem with file mod times using AFR.
>
> this is really bad:
> server1# ls -al vfc017.jpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user1 group1 47660 2008-07-10 14:06 vfc017.jpg
> server1# ls -alu vfc017.jpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user1 group1 47660 2008-07-10 14:06 vfc017.jpg
>
> server2# ls -al vfc017.jpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user1 group1 47660 2008-12-23 09:25 vfc017.jpg
> server2# ls -alu vfc017.jpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user1 group1 47660 2008-12-29 15:55 vfc017.jpg
>
> so, there are programs and such which look for files modified after a
> certain date, and does stuff to them.
> if this is a web app, for example, and it hits the server with the
> newer date (the date AFR copied the file I presume?) then it thinks
> every single thing is new and does it's processing.
>
> Shouldn't AFR set the file mod and create times to that of the
> original source file?
>
> However, once it's in this state, I'm not sure how to fix it in an
> automated way, but hopefully there will be a patch so that this
> doesn't happen in the future.
>
> Keith
>
>
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