Re: Any better way to interact with xfs?

Eric Sandeen
2016-07-28T03:48:31Z

On 7/27/16 10:30 PM, Ryan Lindsay wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a bit of a specific requirement.
>
> I have a server that currently has a 12T worth of data on it on an
> xfs formatted LV.
>
> currently the file permissions are set via an LDAP, however we are
> having to move to AD for out authentication mechanism. Which will
> change the value of the existing UID's and GID's
>
> Since XFS has a lot of mechanisms that allow things to happen in
> parallel. I was wondering if there was a way of interacting at the
> file system level to facilitate a change of UID's on files rather
> than having to just chown recursively down the file system. The
> faster I can update the permissions the better basically

Hi Ryan - I'm afraid I don't think there is any lower-level mechanism
to replace permissions, just the normal posix syscalls and
standard tools to invoke them.

You can't convince AD to keep the same numbers? :)

-Eric