[gpfsug-discuss] Copying ACLs between filesystems

Mon Oct 1 10:33:42 BST 2012

Nice.  Can you put it on the github?

https://github.com/gpfsug/gpfsug-tools

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-
> bounces at gpfsug.org] On Behalf Of Orlando Richards
> Sent: 01 October 2012 10:20
> To: gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org
> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Copying ACLs between filesystems
> 
> Whoop! Got it!
> 
> Attached is the complete patch against the rsync-3.0.9 release bundle:
>   http://www.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz
> 
> The patch was taken with:
> diff -rupN rsync-3.0.9/ rsync-3.0.9-patched/  > gpfs_support_rsync-
> 3.0.9.patch
> 
> To build once patched - do:
> ./configure --enable-acl-support --enable-xattr-support --enable-gpfs-
> support
> 
> (make sure that libacl1-dev, or equivalent, is available).
> 
> Seems to work as desired.
> 
> In the end, I removed all the "if DEBUG_GTE" statements from the gpfs.c
> code to get it working (!).
> 
> --
> Orlando
> 
> On 28/09/12 15:46, Jez Tucker wrote:
> > Well, since it's Friday and I've just been tracing gpfs_get_winattr issues all
> the way back from SAMBAs vfs_gpfs.h to gpfs.so, might as well have a punt.
> > Grabbing rsync latest git.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-
> >> bounces at gpfsug.org] On Behalf Of Orlando Richards
> >> Sent: 28 September 2012 15:11
> >> To: gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org
> >> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Copying ACLs between filesystems
> >>
> >> On 28/09/12 12:30, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 12:06 +0100, Orlando Richards wrote:
> >>>> On 28/09/12 11:28, Barry Evans wrote:
> >>>>> Just tried rsync -A (preserve acl's) on this end, no joy there either.
> >>>>> two filesystems, same machine.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> sounds very, very evil but have you tried robocopy from one share
> >>>>> to another? Not ideal.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've considered it - but not yet desperate enough to try it :)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> When I have tried doing this from Windows file servers the results
> >>> where not nice as Windows has ACL's for things like administrators
> >>> etc. that robocopy attempted to copy over. It was also painfully slow.
> >>> I found xcopy was a lot faster, though as my source was a Windows
> >>> server the resultant ACL's were still borked.
> >>>
> >>>> Still looking for something sane.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Would AFM not do the trick?
> >>>
> >>>> Good to see I'm not just missing something blatantly obvious though!
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> What's your coding like? Depending how often you are going to be
> >>> attempting this I would fix the IBM patches for rsync so they work
> >>> on a modern version of rsync. Patch does not look to complicated to me.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Beyond my abilities it seems. If anyone fancies having a friday
> >> afternoon coding challenge, here's the problem:
> >>
> >> I'm trying to apply this patch:
> >>
> >> http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/attachments/20081021/015484b1/rs
> >> ync
> >> _gpfs_attrs-git.obj
> >>
> >> to rsync - let's say version 3.0.6:
> >>
> >> http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.6.tar.gz
> >>
> >> So I do:
> >> mkdir -p src/rsync
> >> cd src/rsync
> >> wget http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.6.tar.gz
> >> wget
> >> http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/attachments/20081021/015484b1/rs
> >> ync
> >> _gpfs_attrs-git.obj
> >> tar -zxf rsync-3.0.6.tar.gz
> >> cd rsync-3.0.6
> >> patch -p1 -F3 -i ../rsync_gpfs_attrs-git.diff
> >>
> >> ./configure --prefix=/tmp
> >> make
> >>
> >>
> >> Error message is:
> >>
> >> $ make gcc -std=gnu99 -I. -I. -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -W  -c
> >> gpfs.c -o gpfs.o In file included from rsync.h:920:0,
> >>                    from gpfs.c:20:
> >> proto.h:111:28: warning: 'struct rsync_gpfs_attr' declared inside
> >> parameter list [enabled by default]
> >> proto.h:111:28: warning: its scope is only this definition or
> >> declaration, which is probably not what you want [enabled by default]
> >> gpfs.c:130:6: error: conflicting types for 'gpfs_free_attr'
> >> proto.h:111:6: note: previous declaration of 'gpfs_free_attr' was
> >> here
> >> gpfs.c: In function 'gpfs_free_sxp':
> >> gpfs.c:142:10: error: 'stat_x' has no member named 'gpfs_attr'
> >> gpfs.c:144:20: error: 'stat_x' has no member named 'gpfs_attr'
> >> gpfs.c:145:10: error: 'stat_x' has no member named 'gpfs_attr'
> >> gpfs.c:146:5: error: 'stat_x' has no member named 'gpfs_attr'
> >> gpfs.c: In function 'gpfs_free_list':
> >> gpfs.c:162:3: warning: implicit declaration of function 'DEBUG_GTE'
> >> [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> >> gpfs.c:162:17: error: 'ACL' undeclared (first use in this function)
> >> gpfs.c:162:17: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> >> for each function it appears in
> >> gpfs.c: In function 'gpfs_receive_attr_int':
> >> gpfs.c:212:16: error: 'ACL' undeclared (first use in this function)
> >> gpfs.c: In function 'gpfs_find_attr':
> >> gpfs.c:344:20: error: 'ACL' undeclared (first use in this function)
> >> gpfs.c: In function 'gpfs_cache_attr':
> >> gpfs.c:382:33: error: 'stat_x' has no member named 'gpfs_attr'
> >> gpfs.c: In function 'gpfs_send_attr':
> >> gpfs.c:398:33: error: 'stat_x' has no member named 'gpfs_attr'
> >> gpfs.c:403:17: error: 'ACL' undeclared (first use in this function)
> >> gpfs.c: In function 'gpfs_get_attr':
> >> gpfs.c:519:5: error: 'stat_x' has no member named 'gpfs_attr'
> >> gpfs.c:522:16: error: 'ACL' undeclared (first use in this function)
> >> gpfs.c: In function 'gpfs_set_attr':
> >> gpfs.c:538:16: error: 'ACL' undeclared (first use in this function)
> >> gpfs.c: In function 'gpfs_attr_get_changed':
> >> gpfs.c:587:10: error: 'stat_x' has no member named 'gpfs_attr'
> >> gpfs.c:595:37: error: 'stat_x' has no member named 'gpfs_attr'
> >> gpfs.c:597:21: error: 'stat_x' has no member named 'gpfs_attr'
> >> gpfs.c:598:7: error: 'stat_x' has no member named 'gpfs_attr'
> >> gpfs.c:601:16: error: 'ACL' undeclared (first use in this function)
> >> make: *** [gpfs.o] Error 1
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>               --
> >>      Dr Orlando Richards
> >>     Information Services
> >> IT Infrastructure Division
> >>          Unix Section
> >>       Tel: 0131 650 4994
> >>
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>              --
>     Dr Orlando Richards
>    Information Services
> IT Infrastructure Division
>         Unix Section
>      Tel: 0131 650 4994
> 
> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with
> registration number SC005336.