Hi Marc,

  this was meant to be more a joke than a 'wish' - but it would be interesting 
for us (with the case of several millions of files having the same ACL) if 
there are ways/plans to treat ACLs more referenced from each of these files and 
having a mechanism to treat all of them in a single operation.

-- Martin
> On 7 Aug, 2015, at 23:21, Marc A Kaplan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> You asked: 
> 
> "your description of the ACL implementation looks like each file has some 
> sort of reference to the ACL - so multiple files could reference the same 
> physical ACL data. In our case, we need to set a large number of files (and 
> directories) to the same ACL (content) - could we take any benefit from these 
> 'pseudo' referencing nature ? i.e. set ACL contents once and the job is done 
> ;-). It looks that mmputacl can only access the ACL data 'through' a filename 
> and not 'directly' - we just need the 'dirty' way ;-)" 
> 
> 
> Perhaps one could hack/patch that - but I can't recommend it.  Would you 
> routinely hack/patch the GPFS metadata that comprises a directory?   
> Consider replicated and logged metadata ... Consider you've corrupted the 
> hash table of all ACL values... 
> 
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