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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 6, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

Support BSD groups semantics

Customer is migrating from Isilon, which supports configuring the BSD group semantincs meaning that new files inherit the group id of the parent group. Some file systems on linux support the "grpid" or "bsdgroups" mount option to enable same semantics. We need to support the same in Scale. Description from linux/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst (similar for ext*fs):

  grpid/bsdgroups or nogrpid/sysvgroups (default)
       These options define what group ID a newly created file
       gets.  When ``grpid`` is set, it takes the group ID of the
       directory in which it is created; otherwise it takes the
       ``fsgid`` of the current process, unless the directory has the
       ``setgid`` bit set, in which case it takes the ``gid`` from the
       parent directory, and also gets the ``setgid`` bit set if it is
       a directory itself.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 7, 2024

    In addition it would be VERY handy if there was a way to not only force the group but also force the write bit for the group. This is frequently asked for at out side. As we are not using NFSv4-ACLs we cannot cover that currently

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