[gpfsug-discuss] Copying ACLs between filesystems

[Barry Evans]

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.

Cheers,
Barry



On 28 Sep 2012, at 11:03, Orlando Richards <orlando.richards at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Does anyone know a good way to sync files between two gpfs filesystems, while preserving NFSv4 ACL's?
> 
> I've tried rsync and cp - neither of which seem to copy over acls.
> 
> Sample test:
> 
> # mkdir test
> # mmeditacl -k nfs4 test
> # mmgetacl test
> #NFSv4 ACL
> #owner:root
> #group:root
> group:1234:rwxc:allow:FileInherit:DirInherit
> (X)READ/LIST (X)WRITE/CREATE (X)MKDIR (X)SYNCHRONIZE (X)READ_ACL (X)READ_ATTR  (-)READ_NAMED
> (-)DELETE    (X)DELETE_CHILD (X)CHOWN (X)EXEC/SEARCH (X)WRITE_ACL (X)WRITE_ATTR (-)WRITE_NAMED
> 
> # rsync -av test/ test2/
> [root at mwvm06 nasdev]# mmgetacl -k nfs4 test2
> #NFSv4 ACL
> #owner:root
> #group:root
> special:owner@:---c:allow
> (-)READ/LIST (-)WRITE/CREATE (-)MKDIR (X)SYNCHRONIZE (X)READ_ACL (X)READ_ATTR  (-)READ_NAMED
> (-)DELETE    (-)DELETE_CHILD (X)CHOWN (-)EXEC/SEARCH (X)WRITE_ACL (X)WRITE_ATTR (-)WRITE_NAMED
> 
> special:group@:----:allow
> (-)READ/LIST (-)WRITE/CREATE (-)MKDIR (X)SYNCHRONIZE (X)READ_ACL (X)READ_ATTR  (-)READ_NAMED
> (-)DELETE    (-)DELETE_CHILD (-)CHOWN (-)EXEC/SEARCH (-)WRITE_ACL (-)WRITE_ATTR (-)WRITE_NAMED
> 
> special:everyone@:----:allow
> (-)READ/LIST (-)WRITE/CREATE (-)MKDIR (X)SYNCHRONIZE (X)READ_ACL (X)READ_ATTR  (-)READ_NAMED
> (-)DELETE    (-)DELETE_CHILD (-)CHOWN (-)EXEC/SEARCH (-)WRITE_ACL (-)WRITE_ATTR (-)WRITE_NAMED
> 
> 
> 
> 
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