From b91427c30fa84f8983ee4b392e4d037221676ef5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Lu <chris.lu@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:42:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] filer: preserve existing TTL during CreateEntry/UpdateEntry
 gRPC calls

This ensures that metadata load correctly restores entries with their
original TTL instead of overwriting with the default from filer.conf.
Fixes #8159.
---
 weed/server/filer_grpc_server.go | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/weed/server/filer_grpc_server.go b/weed/server/filer_grpc_server.go
index cd555f2c2..4510a0397 100644
--- a/weed/server/filer_grpc_server.go
+++ b/weed/server/filer_grpc_server.go
@@ -155,7 +155,9 @@ func (fs *FilerServer) CreateEntry(ctx context.Context, req *filer_pb.CreateEntr
 	newEntry.Chunks = chunks
 	// Don't apply TTL to remote entries - they're managed by remote storage
 	if newEntry.Remote == nil {
-		newEntry.TtlSec = so.TtlSeconds
+		if newEntry.TtlSec == 0 {
+			newEntry.TtlSec = so.TtlSeconds
+		}
 	} else {
 		newEntry.TtlSec = 0
 	}