Hi All,

First off, I have very limited experience with GPFS ACL’s, so please forgive me 
if I’m missing something obvious here.  AFAIK, this is the first time we’ve hit 
something like this…

We have a fileset where all the files / directories have GPFS NFSv4 ACL’s set 
on them.  However, unlike most of our filesets where the same ACL is applied to 
every file / directory in the share, this one has different ACL’s on different 
files / directories.  Now we have the need to add to the existing ACL’s … 
another group needs access.  Unlike regular Unix / Linux ACL’s where setfacl 
can be used to just add to an ACL (i.e. setfacl -R g:group_name:rwx), I’m not 
seeing where GPFS has a similar command … i.e. mmputacl seems to expect the 
_entire_ new ACL to be supplied via either manual entry or an input file.  
That’s obviously problematic in this scenario.

So am I missing something?  Is there an easier solution than writing a script 
which recurses over the fileset, gets the existing ACL with mmgetacl and 
outputs that to a file, edits that file to add in the new group, and passes 
that as input to mmputacl?  That seems very cumbersome and error prone, 
especially if I’m the one writing the script!

Thanks…

Kevin
—
Kevin Buterbaugh - Senior System Administrator
Vanderbilt University - Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> - 
(615)875-9633

_______________________________________________
gpfsug-discuss mailing list
gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org
http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss

Reply via email to