ceph: allow ceph.dir.rctime xattr to be updatable
`rctime' has been a pain point in cephfs due to its buggy nature - inconsistent values reported and those sorts. Fixing rctime is non-trivial needing an overall redesign of the entire nested statistics infrastructure. As a workaround, PR http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/37938 allows this extended attribute to be manually set. This allows users to "fixup" inconsistent rctime values. While this sounds messy, its probably the wisest approach allowing users/scripts to workaround buggy rctime values. The above PR enables Ceph MDS to allow manually setting rctime extended attribute with the corresponding user-land changes. We may as well allow the same to be done via kclient for parity. Signed-off-by: Venky Shankar <vshankar@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
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