Created attachment 8283 [details] Patch to rsync to support GPFS attributes IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) offers ACL support. However, rsync does not copy the ACLs when copying files between GPFS filesystems. Ronnie Sahlberg released an initial patch to get this working back in 2008: http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2008-October/021963.html which I re-jiggled a bit to get building against the rsync 3.0.9 release tarball. I've attached that here. To build: - obtained rsync tarball from: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz - Prerequisite is, at least, libacl development headers - in Ubuntu 12.04, this can be obtained with (for example): sudo apt-get install libacl1-dev - Once you've applied the patch with, say: patch patch -p1 -i ../gpfs_support_rsync-3.0.9.patch configure rsync with: ./configure --enable-acl-support --enable-xattr-support --enable-gpfs-support --prefix=/opt/rsync.gpfs then do: make and, optionally,: make install - to use the gpfs extensions, add the rsync command option: --gpfs-attrs - there's also --gpfs-cache-attr - So, step by step (this is from an Ubuntu 12.04 box), to build this do: # sudo apt-get install libacl1-dev # mkdir -p src/rsync # cd src/rsync # wget http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz ### Get the gpfs_support_rsync-3.0.9.patch file and put it in this folder (src/rsync) # tar -zxf rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz # cd rsync-3.0.9 # patch -p1 -i ../gpfs_support_rsync-3.0.9.patch # ./configure --enable-acl-support --enable-xattr-support --enable-gpfs-support --prefix=/opt/rsync.gpfs # make # make install - To check that the binary has gpfs support, check that the "gpfs" capability is present in: # /opt/rsync.gpfs/bin/rsync --version rsync version 3.0.9 protocol version 30 Copyright (C) 1996-2011 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/ Capabilities: 64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints, socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs, xattrs, gpfs, iconv, symtimes rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU General Public Licence for details. - To test if it has worked, first copy a file/folder which has ALCs present using the "stock" rsync: # mmgetacl /gpfs1/testfolder1/ #NFSv4 ACL #owner:root #group:root user:12345:rwxc:allow:FileInherit:DirInherit (X)READ/LIST (X)WRITE/CREATE (X)MKDIR (X)SYNCHRONIZE (X)READ_ACL (X)READ_ATTR (X)READ_NAMED (X)DELETE (X)DELETE_CHILD (X)CHOWN (X)EXEC/SEARCH (X)WRITE_ACL (X)WRITE_ATTR (X)WRITE_NAMED group:123456:rwxc:allow:FileInherit:DirInherit (X)READ/LIST (X)WRITE/CREATE (X)MKDIR (X)SYNCHRONIZE (X)READ_ACL (X)READ_ATTR (X)READ_NAMED (X)DELETE (X)DELETE_CHILD (X)CHOWN (X)EXEC/SEARCH (X)WRITE_ACL (X)WRITE_ATTR (X)WRITE_NAMED group:223456:rwxc:allow:FileInherit:DirInherit (X)READ/LIST (X)WRITE/CREATE (X)MKDIR (X)SYNCHRONIZE (X)READ_ACL (X)READ_ATTR (X)READ_NAMED (X)DELETE (X)DELETE_CHILD (X)CHOWN (X)EXEC/SEARCH (X)WRITE_ACL (X)WRITE_ATTR (X)WRITE_NAMED # rsync -av /gpfs1/testfolder1/ /gpfs/testfolder1-copy/ # mmgetacl /gpfs/testfolder1-copy/ #NFSv4 ACL #owner:root #group:root special:owner@:---c:allow (-)READ/LIST (-)WRITE/CREATE (-)MKDIR (X)SYNCHRONIZE (X)READ_ACL (X)READ_ATTR (-)READ_NAMED (-)DELETE (-)DELETE_CHILD (X)CHOWN (-)EXEC/SEARCH (X)WRITE_ACL (X)WRITE_ATTR (-)WRITE_NAMED special:group@:----:allow (-)READ/LIST (-)WRITE/CREATE (-)MKDIR (X)SYNCHRONIZE (X)READ_ACL (X)READ_ATTR (-)READ_NAMED (-)DELETE (-)DELETE_CHILD (-)CHOWN (-)EXEC/SEARCH (-)WRITE_ACL (-)WRITE_ATTR (-)WRITE_NAMED special:everyone@:----:allow (-)READ/LIST (-)WRITE/CREATE (-)MKDIR (X)SYNCHRONIZE (X)READ_ACL (X)READ_ATTR (-)READ_NAMED (-)DELETE (-)DELETE_CHILD (-)CHOWN (-)EXEC/SEARCH (-)WRITE_ACL (-)WRITE_ATTR (-)WRITE_NAMED ### (note that this newly created folder may inherit permissions from it's parent, if it has any set) # /opt/rsync.gpfs/bin/rsync -av --gpfs-attrs /gpfs1/testfolder1/ /gpfs/testfolder1-copy-withpatchedrsync # mmgetacl /gpfs/testfolder1-copy-withpatchedrsync #NFSv4 ACL #owner:root #group:root user:12345:rwxc:allow:FileInherit:DirInherit (X)READ/LIST (X)WRITE/CREATE (X)MKDIR (X)SYNCHRONIZE (X)READ_ACL (X)READ_ATTR (X)READ_NAMED (X)DELETE (X)DELETE_CHILD (X)CHOWN (X)EXEC/SEARCH (X)WRITE_ACL (X)WRITE_ATTR (X)WRITE_NAMED group:123456:rwxc:allow:FileInherit:DirInherit (X)READ/LIST (X)WRITE/CREATE (X)MKDIR (X)SYNCHRONIZE (X)READ_ACL (X)READ_ATTR (X)READ_NAMED (X)DELETE (X)DELETE_CHILD (X)CHOWN (X)EXEC/SEARCH (X)WRITE_ACL (X)WRITE_ATTR (X)WRITE_NAMED group:223456:rwxc:allow:FileInherit:DirInherit (X)READ/LIST (X)WRITE/CREATE (X)MKDIR (X)SYNCHRONIZE (X)READ_ACL (X)READ_ATTR (X)READ_NAMED (X)DELETE (X)DELETE_CHILD (X)CHOWN (X)EXEC/SEARCH (X)WRITE_ACL (X)WRITE_ATTR (X)WRITE_NAMED