Hi again I've managed to simplify this. I think it only affects empty directories. It is still non-deterministic, ceph.dir.rctime will be set correctly between 30% and 80% of the time, the rest of the time it will be the same as the directory's original mtime. #!/bin/bash source="/teraraid4/toby/ceph-test" ### Your NFS file system mkdir -p $source/{old,new} touch -t 201810211300 $source/old cd /ceph/... # somewhere on your ceph file system x=0 while [ $x -lt 10 ]; do top=test-$x rm -rf $top echo "== start $top ==" rsync -a $source $top new_stamp=$(getfattr --only-values -n ceph.dir.rctime $top/ceph-test/new) while [ $(echo "$new_stamp < 1" | bc -l) -eq 1 ]; do new_stamp=$(getfattr --only-values -n ceph.dir.rctime $top/ceph-test/new) sleep 1 done old_stamp=$(getfattr --only-values -n ceph.dir.rctime $top/ceph-test/old) [ $(echo "$new_stamp > $old_stamp" | bc -l) -eq 1 ] && getfattr -n ceph.dir.rctime $top/ceph-test/* ((x++)) echo "== end $top ==" done Cheers Toby On 16/10/2019 13:48, Toby Darling wrote: > Hi > > Occasionally, a directory's ceph.dir.rctime isn't updated when it is > copied (rsync'd) to ceph, it reads the same as from stat, not the time > it was created on ceph. > > The cluster is all Scientific Linux release 7.7 with ceph 14.2.4 > nautilus (stable), the problem happened with kernel client running on > one of the mon nodes. The tree that was rsync'd in was about 20TB, 340k > files, 3000 directories. In all, I've found just 5 directories suffering > this - possibly of interest, they are all empty (although there were 472 > empty dirs in total). > > * dir1 is reported correctly: > > [root@ceph ~]# ls -ld path/to/dir1 > drwxr-xr-x 1 thisuser thisuser 0 Jun 18 2018 path/to/dir1 > > [root@ceph ~]# getfattr --only-values -n ceph.dir.rctime path/to/dir1 > 1571035073.09398156844 > [root@ceph ~]# stat path/to/dir1 > File: ‘path/to/dir1’ > Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 65536 directory > Device: 0h/0d Inode: 1099637142596 Links: 1 > Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: (26089/thisuser) Gid: (26089/thisuser) > Access: 2019-10-14 07:37:53.397156853 +0100 > Modify: 2018-06-18 18:19:12.001114388 +0100 > Change: 2019-10-14 07:37:53.398156844 +0100 > Birth: - > > * But dir2's rctime is wrong: > > [root@ceph ~]# ls -ld path/to/dir1/dir2 > drwxr-xr-x 1 thisuser thisuser 0 Jun 18 2018 path/to/dir1/dir2 > [root@ceph ~]# getfattr --only-values -n ceph.dir.rctime path/to/dir1/dir2 > 1529342352.091114388 > [root@ceph ~]# stat path/to/dir1/dir2 > File: ‘path/to/dir1/dir2’ > Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 65536 directory > Device: 0h/0d Inode: 1099637142960 Links: 1 > Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: (26089/thisuser) Gid: (26089/thisuser) > Access: 2019-10-14 07:37:53.398156844 +0100 > Modify: 2018-06-18 18:19:12.001114388 +0100 > Change: 2019-10-14 07:37:53.398156844 +0100 > Birth: - > > > Cheers > Toby > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx > Cheers Toby _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx