On 29/08/2022 18:52, Losen, Stephen C (scl) wrote:
Hi,
We want to export SMB shares via Spectrum Scale CES nodes. The
filesystem has ACL style set to “all” and we must set it to nfs4 with
mmchfs -k nfs4 . The filesystem currently has millions of files with
POSIX ACLs. Will this mmchfs command result in any performance impact,
such as a major rewrite of metadata? Thanks.
The operation will complete very quickly. The bigger risk is that your
existing ACL's will go "puff".
As I understand it GPFS stores each different ACL only once and then it
points each file to the ACL. When you change the ACL type they get nuked
from recollection but it is a decade now since I played around with
that. I stick to NFSv4 ACL's since then because well POSIX ACL's are a
bit naff frankly.
I personally would have thought "-k samba" would have been preferable
for your use case mine you ;-)
JAB.
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HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt.
University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG
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