[pbs-devel] [PATCH v6 proxmox-backup 4/8] ui: expose GC atime safety check flag in datastore tuning options

Christian Ebner c.ebner at proxmox.com
Wed Mar 19 18:24:28 CET 2025


Allow to edit the atime safety check flag via the datastore tuning
options edit window.

Do not expose the flag for datastore creation as it is strongly
discouraged to create datastores on filesystems not correctly handling
atime updates as the garbage collection expects. It is nevertheless
still possible to create a datastore via the cli and pass in the
`--tuning gc-atime-safety-check=false` option.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner at proxmox.com>
---
changes since version 5:
- Shorten field label, add qtip with longer info instead.

 www/Utils.js                |  4 ++++
 www/datastore/OptionView.js | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/www/Utils.js b/www/Utils.js
index 2746ef0b5..9bd7e1615 100644
--- a/www/Utils.js
+++ b/www/Utils.js
@@ -846,6 +846,10 @@ Ext.define('PBS.Utils', {
 	sync = PBS.Utils.tuningOptions['sync-level'][sync ?? '__default__'];
 	options.push(`${gettext('Sync Level')}: ${sync}`);
 
+	let gc_atime_safety_check = tuning['gc-atime-safety-check'];
+	delete tuning['gc-atime-safety-check'];
+	options.push(`${gettext('GC Access Time Safety Check')}: ${gc_atime_safety_check ?? true}`);
+
 	for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(tuning)) {
 	    options.push(`${k}: ${v}`);
 	}
diff --git a/www/datastore/OptionView.js b/www/datastore/OptionView.js
index e1f38af6f..eb846ab76 100644
--- a/www/datastore/OptionView.js
+++ b/www/datastore/OptionView.js
@@ -271,6 +271,18 @@ Ext.define('PBS.Datastore.Options', {
 			    deleteEmpty: true,
 			    value: '__default__',
 			},
+			{
+			    xtype: 'proxmoxcheckbox',
+			    name: 'gc-atime-safety-check',
+			    fieldLabel: gettext('GC atime Check'),
+			    autoEl: {
+				tag: 'div',
+				'data-qtip': gettext('Ensure underlying storage honors access time updates'),
+			    },
+			    defaultValue: 1,
+			    uncheckedValue: 0,
+			    deleteDefaultValue: true,
+			},
 		    ],
 		},
 	    },
-- 
2.39.5





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