[Lustre-discuss] Anyone using ACLs?

[Kent Engström]

Mario David <david at lip.pt> writes:
> hi Craig
>
> we still have lustre 1.8.6, but we (and several other sites) have been using acl's for a long time with no reported problem, i.e.
> lustre is a backend FS for a thing called Storm (storage resource managers, a grid storage thing) exposed to external grid users
> the way storm SW works it sets and modifies acl's according to whatever user or usage,
>
> I didn't experiment or set "default" acl's, though I suppose they should also work OK

There is an issue with default ACLs. See
http://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-974,
"Lustre does not ignore umask when default ACL with mask is set"
(which contains proposed patches from Whamcloud for the issue).

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