source side

[John Van Essen]

In your original "timestamps" thread back on May 25:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg13496.html

you said the source is a "windows share from a NetApp filer" that
is mounted on a RHEL3 box via:

  mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pwd //server/share /backup/sync

Your timestamp example below seems to indicate a loss of the daylight
savings time flag, producing times that are an hour earlier.  I think
that this is some kind of timestamp _reporting_ problem rather than a
timestamp _changing_ problem, and is related to the kernel routine
that translates smbfs data to unix fs data.  Rsync's heavy disk usage
have exposed software shortcomings in the past and this may be yet
another example.

Have you looked at the timestamps via the windows system to see if they
have actually changed when this "problem" happens?

Do they change every time you run rsync and go back another hour each
time?  Or do you unmount the windows share and remount it and the
timestamps are restored to their "normal" unchanged values?

    John


On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Juergen Busam <busam at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> I've ran a "ls -altr" on the source before syncing and after it and it
> definitely shows that the timestamps of the source side changed after
> rsync has finished. The destination side gets the timestamps of the
> source side before the sync.
> 
> Example:
> 
> bevor sync:
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       572928 Feb 23 22:26 Accept_PatXfer.dot
> 
> after sync:
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       572928 Feb 23 21:26 Accept_PatXfer.dot
> 
> destination shows
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       572928 Feb 23 22:26 Accept_PatXfer.dot
> 
> after the rsync run.
> 
> 
> The "problem hereby is, that the sourceside is mounted readonly!
> Nevertheless the timestamp gets changed...
> 
> 
> Wayne Davison wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:27:42AM +1000, Juergen Busam wrote:
>> 
>>>I still have my formerly mentioned timestamp problem. IS rsync changing
>>>the timestamps on the sourceside?
>> 
>> 
>> No, rsync doesn't do anything on the source-side except read things
>> (unless --remove-sent-files is specified, in which case it also removes
>> things).  If your timestamps on the source are changing, something else
>> is changing them.  (You may wish to verify that the timestamps on the
>> source are the ones that are changing and not the destination -- rsync
>> updates the files when the timestamps are different, but you don't know
>> for sure which side has the changed timestamps unless you investigate.)
>> 
>> ..wayne..