SSHFS changes modification date (not access date) of server files on download(!). Is there an option/setting to prevent that?
The problems this causes include:
- after the next download, you can't sort the files by date anymore.
- when we backup to the server, every file will be transferred on every occasion (bc their dates are always different)
- in the use-case of sharing updated files on the server: everything will be downloaded every occasion even if no-one uploaded anything
UPDATE: After changing operating systems and taking 2 weeks to restore modification dates from backups (making sure that actually-modified files don't get their date restored...), there are two machines remaining with which we can reproduce the behavior:
Server: Linux Mint 21.2, sshfs 3.7.1, fuse 3.10.5, fuse ki 7.31 fusermount3 3.10.5
Client: GhostBSD 14.2 (a modified FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1), sshfs 3.7.3, fuse 3.17.1, fuse ki 7.40, mount-fusefs 0.3.9-pre1
- Download Command:
cp -pr mnt/content/ local/content/ - mount command:
sshfs [email protected]:/home/a/server-dir mnt/
df -T Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on tmpfs tmpfs 1618628 2160 1616468 1% /run /dev/sda5 ext3 435281408 433288172 1993236 100% / tmpfs tmpfs 8093124 4 8093120 1% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock /dev/sda1 vfat 98304 31835 66469 33% /boot/efi tmpfs tmpfs 1618624 104 1618520 1% /run/user/1000 /home/a/.Private ecryptfs 435281408 433288172 1993236 100% /home/a /dev/mapper/veracrypt1 ext3 391090108 368891012 2276168 100% /media/veracrypt1 sshfs [email protected]:/media/notcrypted/ mnt/ cp mnt/file . that changes the server file's date 