source side

[Juergen Busam]

Yes, the source side is a CIFS share on a NetApp filer and YES, they
change everytime I run rsync and they go back another hour.
no, they do NOT restore to their "normal" unchanged values, after
unmounting and mounting again...

they shouldn't change at all, because rsync shouldn't do anything on the
source side, the CIFS share is mounted readonly AND the Windows Domain
User has only read rights in this share....

John Van Essen wrote:
> 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..
> 
> 
>