Regarding the behavior with CHOWN in Spectrum Scale, to avoid quota abuse and 
security exposures, we have restricted that file owners can only chown only to 
themselves or to a group that they are a member of. This has been noted since 
Scale 4.2.0:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/4.2.0?topic=applications-gpfs-exceptions-limitations-nfs-v4-acls

“NFS V4 allows ACL entries that grant users (or groups) permission to change 
the owner or owning group of the file (for example, with the chown command). 
For security reasons, GPFS now restricts this so that non-privileged users may 
only chown such a file to themselves (becoming the owner) or to a group that 
they are a member of.”

Regards,
Anh Dao
IBM Spectrum Scale
Software Developer
[email protected]

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