I see. Thanks @Wei-Chiu Chuang <weic...@apache.org> for the confirmation.

On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 05:08, Wei-Chiu Chuang <weic...@apache.org> wrote:

> I had the same question too. If I look at the HDFS implementation as the
> reference, HDFS setTimes() touches only the directory/file specified. It
> doesn't do anything else. Therefore it's an O(1) operation.
>
> The Hadoop contract test verifies only that an exception is thrown if the
> file doesn't exist.
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 1:50 AM Sammi Chen <sammic...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Wei-Chiu,
> >
> > Thanks for working on this.  It's good to support an accurate
> modification
> > time.
> > The design document attached in the JIRA HDDS-8278
> > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDDS-8278> overall looks good.
> >
> > I just have one question regarding the directory's modification time
> > behavior of FSO bucket.  If one file gets modified, will its all ancestor
> > directories' modification time get updated too?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sammi
> >
> > On Tue, 23 May 2023 at 06:30, Wei-Chiu Chuang <weic...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > this proposal is regarding HDDS-8278
> > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDDS-8278> implementing Hadoop
> > > compatible file system setTimes() API.
> > >
> > > I'd like to add this API into ofs and o3fs, to support both OBS and FSO
> > > bucket types. Keys/files/directories are supported. No support for
> volume
> > > and buckets.
> > >
> > > The use case is HBase. HBase's file cleaner depends on the file
> > > modification time to work properly.
> > >
> > > What to note: HCFS setTimes() updates both modification time and access
> > > time. In Ozone, we have creation time and modification time, but no
> > access
> > > time. IMO this is a wise decision as I've seen access time causing
> major
> > > problems with HDFS in the past. So the accessTime parameter in the
> > > setTimes() API will be ignored by Ozone Manager.
> > >
> > > The feature itself is a tiny change: update modificationTime field of
> an
> > > OmKeyInfo object. But it requires a huge amount of boilerplate code to
> > > support this small change.
> > >
> > > You can find the link to the PR here:
> > > https://github.com/apache/ozone/pull/4720
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Weichiu
> > >
> >
>

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