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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I have 5.0.4 for the moment (planned to be updated next year) and what I see is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Is that what you are talking about ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> Alvise<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Da:</b> gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org <gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org>
<b>Per conto di </b>Frederick Stock<br>
<b>Inviato:</b> martedì 7 dicembre 2021 15:02<br>
<b>A:</b> gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<br>
<b>Oggetto:</b> Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Question on changing mode on many files<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you are running on a more recent version of Scale you might want to look at the mmfind command. It provides a find-like wrapper around the execution of policy rules.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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From: "Dorigo Alvise (PSI)" <<a href="mailto:alvise.dorigo@psi.ch">alvise.dorigo@psi.ch</a>><br>
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] Question on changing mode on many files<br>
Date: Tue, Dec 7, 2021 8:53 AM<br>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I’d like to ask if there is a fast way to manipulate the permission mask of many files (millions).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I tried on 900k files and a recursive chmod (chmod 0### -R path) takes about 1000s, with about 50% usage of mmfsd daemon.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I tried with the perl’s internal function chmod that can operate on an array of files, and it takes about 1/3 of the previous method. Which is already a good result.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I’ve seen the possibility to run a policy to execute commands, but I would avoid to execute external commands through mmxargs, 1M of times; would you ?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Does anybody have any suggestion to do this operation with minimum disruption on the system ?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Alvise</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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