[gpfsug-discuss] replicating ACLs across GPFS's?

[Laurence Horrocks-Barlow]

Are you talking about the GPFSUG github?

https://github.com/gpfsug/gpfsug-tools

The patched rsync there I believe was done by Orlando.

-- Lauz


On 05/01/2017 22:01, Buterbaugh, Kevin L wrote:
> Hi Jaime,
>
> IBM developed a patch for rsync that can replicate ACL’s … we’ve used it and it works great … can’t remember where we downloaded it from, though.  Maybe someone else on the list who *isn’t* having a senior moment can point you to it…
>
> Kevin
>
>> On Jan 5, 2017, at 3:53 PM, Jaime Pinto <pinto at scinet.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know of a functional standard alone tool to systematically and recursively find and replicate ACLs that works well with GPFS?
>>
>> * We're currently using rsync, which will replicate permissions fine, however it leaves the ACL's behind. The --perms option for rsync is blind to ACLs.
>>
>> * The native linux trick below works well with ext4 after an rsync, but makes a mess on GPFS.
>>      % getfacl -R /path/to/source > /root/perms.ac
>>      % setfacl --restore=/root/perms.acl
>>
>> * The native GPFS mmgetacl/mmputacl pair does not have a built-in recursive option.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jaime
>>
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