I would guess you caught it mid copy and it arose because of the caching. Just a guess but glad we know what's going on.
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018, 15:09 Dave Warren <d...@thedave.ca> wrote: > Howdy. I'm on this list. > > Okay, so this is a bit odd, it looks like the file 1827131.tar.gz was > actually modified by rsync many hours after the initial write: > > Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 02:36:30 -0600 (MDT) > .d..t...... ./ > >f+++++++++ 1827131.tar.gz > >f+++++++++ 1827131.tar.gz.asc > >f+++++++++ 1827131.tar.gz.sha1 > > My cron runs every 5 minutes (with up to 220 seconds variability). I see > "MIRROR.CHECK" being updated at 03:18, 04:21, 05:23, 06:18, etc) > confirming rsync was running. > > > 1827131.tar.gz is modified just over 18 hours later: > > Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 20:47:39 -0600 (MDT) > >f.st...... 1827131.tar.gz > >f..t...... 1827131.tar.gz.asc > >f.st...... 1827131.tar.gz.sha1 > > I was under the impression that the *.tar.gz* files were immutable, but > looking through my rsync logs, this is definitely not the case, I see > the files being created and later updated nearly daily (although not > every day, March 8th I see 1826189.tar.gz was created and never > modified), the only reference to it is here: > > 8 Mar 2018 19:46:40 -0700 (MST) > .d..t...... ./ > >f+++++++++ 1826189.tar.gz > >f+++++++++ 1826189.tar.gz.asc > >f+++++++++ 1826189.tar.gz.sha1 > > > Due to my belief in the immutable nature of these files, the files were > being cached without verifying whether the on-disk source had changed. > For the moment, I will cache less aggressively which should resolve the > problem. > > > Can anyone confirm why the files are being modified? Is this > intentional/expected? > > > > > On 2018-03-19 07:52, Dave Jones wrote: > > I found an email address in the SA archives from 2013. Hopefully this > > makes it to him. > > > > On 03/19/2018 08:33 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > >> Is Dave Warren on this list? If no response, does anyone have an old > >> email with his contact info so I can ask him how his rsync's are setup? > >> > >> Dave > >> > >> On 03/19/2018 08:26 AM, bugzilla-dae...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org > wrote: > >>> https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7566 > >>> > >>> Dave Jones <da...@apache.org> changed: > >>> > >>> What |Removed |Added > >>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > >>> CC| |da...@apache.org > >>> > >>> --- Comment #2 from Dave Jones <da...@apache.org> --- > >>> I guess I can add logic to our hourly script to check sha1 values on > >>> the latest > >>> tar.gz to catch rsync'ing issues. > >>> > >> > > > >