[gpfsug-discuss] Copying ACLs between filesystems

[Barry Evans]

Here's the rsync patch from Ronnie Sahlberg back from '08. Never tried it and not sure if it's actually part of rsync now, but it sounds pretty cool:

http://samba.2283325.n4.nabble.com/Patch-for-GPFS-support-td2508779.html

Cheers,
Barry



On 28 Sep 2012, at 11:28, Barry Evans <bevans at canditmedia.co.uk> 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.
> 
> 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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