[gpfsug-discuss] Copying ACLs between filesystems

[Jez Tucker]

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/rsync
> _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/rsync
> _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
> 
> 
> 
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