Issue #2783
closedCopyDirectoryStep should copy mtime
Description
In Pulp platform there is a CopyDirectoryStep used by various publishers. It's notably used by pulp_rpm to copy an existing yum repo and incrementally update it.
Currently, it will copy file contents and discard attributes, including mtime.
It would be better if this copy retained the mtime on files for the following reasons:
Improved rsync performance¶
When yum and rsync distributors are used together, an rsync publish may reference many files which have already been published with the same content (e.g. sqlite files which are retained over publishes).
Because these files were copied discarding timestamps, the rsync "quick check" algorithm (which checks if size and last modified time are equal between local and remote) will fail and rsync must read the entire file on both sides to calculate its checksum, which can be much slower if the repo has many files.
I see this in publishes where the rsync itemized output contains many lines like this:
<f..t...... 0258070a02e25a56bb6c05130c1ae275164a58fd4f07585bb43a8476d3cf1cc9-filelists.sqlite.bz2
<f..t...... 0259762a377462d92d93277b10b70b05b2356fdc474c0ac427db4f282df50dc1-primary.sqlite.bz2
<f..t...... 0264321f868112ee7bc735f7f25e47c87485da7847389047a5b0e3f076d3c11d-other.sqlite.bz2
<f..t...... 02751717b265bd5f4644da81e8f1129fcb972867caed8998daff4709cd4cb9ec-primary.sqlite.bz2
...indicating that file content didn't change, but timestamp changed.
(Side note: about yum repos retaining files between publish, see related issues https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1684 , https://pulp.plan.io/issues/2788 )
More user-friendly¶
mtime is useful for humans, e.g. when looking at a directory listing on a Pulp-hosted yum repo, I would prefer to see the real mtime of each file (so I can tell old and new repodata apart) rather than the time when the CopyDirectoryStep ran.
Updated by ttereshc over 7 years ago
- Triaged changed from No to Yes
- Sprint Candidate changed from No to Yes
Updated by bizhang over 7 years ago
- Status changed from NEW to ASSIGNED
- Assignee set to bizhang
Updated by bizhang over 7 years ago
- Status changed from ASSIGNED to POST
Added by werwty over 7 years ago
Updated by werwty over 7 years ago
- Status changed from POST to MODIFIED
Applied in changeset pulp:pulp|f36a5b96ad60d594cc875faf0ce395d80d63ac75.
Updated by sjlouder over 7 years ago
OS: Fedora 25 Server
Platform Release: 2.14rc3
Verified as part of Test Day
Followed steps listed here: https://github.com/PulpQE/pulp-smash/issues/720
pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=test --feed=https://bizhang.fedorapeople.org/testrepo/ &&
pulp-admin rpm repo update --generate-sqlite=true --repo-id=test &&
pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=test &&
sudo ls -l /var/lib/pulp/published/yum/https/repos/testrepo/repodata | grep .sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 864 Aug 8 15:35 0ff18d12b601c1a80294a4dd3dc55347bcc4d1967298d53346852fc1ddf26a86-other.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 2295 Aug 8 15:35 2f153315a50e3313a5e4b2cd796713ccd279297c13f2560f5ff0e53d30ca6eb1-primary.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 1067 Aug 8 15:35 d19d500a8bc34537db43b8bf87b719a4f14a30cfc8501d955dc084f463319b0d-filelists.sqlite.bz2
pulp-admin rpm repo uploads rpm --file=kangaroo-0.2-1.noarch.rpm --repo-id=test &&
pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=test &&
sudo ls -l /var/lib/pulp/published/yum/https/repos/testrepo/repodata | grep .sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 864 Aug 8 15:35 0ff18d12b601c1a80294a4dd3dc55347bcc4d1967298d53346852fc1ddf26a86-other.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 2295 Aug 8 15:35 2f153315a50e3313a5e4b2cd796713ccd279297c13f2560f5ff0e53d30ca6eb1-primary.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 961 Aug 8 15:36 a04328c06fb054a10fec63bedc9e9a33a18622e117ae4f584ffa25875b58db17-other.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 1207 Aug 8 15:36 cd1c7d91516dd580f3163137f7e07d82efb59f974835f17b7c9298f80268ba8e-filelists.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 1067 Aug 8 15:35 d19d500a8bc34537db43b8bf87b719a4f14a30cfc8501d955dc084f463319b0d-filelists.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 2498 Aug 8 15:36 f532dd782fa1a680d9a13210699f666d153a9f9f788079c79699b160af29882f-primary.sqlite.bz2
pulp-admin rpm repo uploads rpm --file=walrus-0.71-1.noarch.rpm --repo-id=test &&
pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=test &&
sudo ls -l /var/lib/pulp/published/yum/https/repos/testrepo/repodata | grep .sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 864 Aug 8 15:35 0ff18d12b601c1a80294a4dd3dc55347bcc4d1967298d53346852fc1ddf26a86-other.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 2295 Aug 8 15:35 2f153315a50e3313a5e4b2cd796713ccd279297c13f2560f5ff0e53d30ca6eb1-primary.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 2818 Aug 8 15:37 53173c4875c80edca361a5040ab1325e27ed587b42e33178981ac4b0ef65f5ba-primary.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 1332 Aug 8 15:37 867ce81dec2dbe4d72bfe6e42060400860d1762b9274a32067cb66d4b853b337-filelists.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 961 Aug 8 15:36 a04328c06fb054a10fec63bedc9e9a33a18622e117ae4f584ffa25875b58db17-other.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 1207 Aug 8 15:36 cd1c7d91516dd580f3163137f7e07d82efb59f974835f17b7c9298f80268ba8e-filelists.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 1067 Aug 8 15:35 d19d500a8bc34537db43b8bf87b719a4f14a30cfc8501d955dc084f463319b0d-filelists.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 1036 Aug 8 15:37 e9970685d7ec7bc5a906c5d28d426613588e15f0d63fca155817fae6086469d9-other.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 2498 Aug 8 15:36 f532dd782fa1a680d9a13210699f666d153a9f9f788079c79699b160af29882f-primary.sqlite.bz2
pulp-admin rpm repo uploads rpm --file=walrus-5.21-1.noarch.rpm --repo-id=test &&
pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=test &&
sudo ls -l /var/lib/pulp/published/yum/https/repos/testrepo/repodata | grep .sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 864 Aug 8 15:35 0ff18d12b601c1a80294a4dd3dc55347bcc4d1967298d53346852fc1ddf26a86-other.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 1120 Aug 8 15:38 23bbc47640e44413eadbe118d0b38e2042c7b92407124adbaeec708dd0604ef9-other.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 2295 Aug 8 15:35 2f153315a50e3313a5e4b2cd796713ccd279297c13f2560f5ff0e53d30ca6eb1-primary.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 2818 Aug 8 15:37 53173c4875c80edca361a5040ab1325e27ed587b42e33178981ac4b0ef65f5ba-primary.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 1459 Aug 8 15:38 585a1af156c4c2f9ee4e3e3be972adf1cc044d6295497064d04e8df0b9a0a2de-filelists.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 1332 Aug 8 15:37 867ce81dec2dbe4d72bfe6e42060400860d1762b9274a32067cb66d4b853b337-filelists.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 961 Aug 8 15:36 a04328c06fb054a10fec63bedc9e9a33a18622e117ae4f584ffa25875b58db17-other.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 2953 Aug 8 15:38 bc63d5b6d30328901600308d2ef2851ba99a78c967081a12c9df16e9c9e50d83-primary.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 1207 Aug 8 15:36 cd1c7d91516dd580f3163137f7e07d82efb59f974835f17b7c9298f80268ba8e-filelists.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 1067 Aug 8 15:35 d19d500a8bc34537db43b8bf87b719a4f14a30cfc8501d955dc084f463319b0d-filelists.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 1036 Aug 8 15:37 e9970685d7ec7bc5a906c5d28d426613588e15f0d63fca155817fae6086469d9-other.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 2498 Aug 8 15:36 f532dd782fa1a680d9a13210699f666d153a9f9f788079c79699b160af29882f-primary.sqlite.bz2
Updated by pcreech over 7 years ago
- Status changed from 5 to CLOSED - CURRENTRELEASE
Added by werwty about 7 years ago
Revision c8b56e44 | View on GitHub
Copy mtime for copytree operation
closes #2783 https://pulp.plan.io/issues/2783
(cherry picked from commit f36a5b96ad60d594cc875faf0ce395d80d63ac75)
Copy mtime for copytree operation
closes #2783 https://pulp.plan.io/issues/2783