[gpfsug-discuss] Copying ACLs between filesystems

[Orlando Richards]

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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