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Lustre allows 8182 users to be added to the ACL of a single file for R/W access, the latest Scale release (v5.5.2.x) only allows 1913 because a hidden ACL file is limited to 15KB.

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Users in large environments like Sanger (UK Biomedical research lab) can continue to implement their in-house user access policies resulting in $10 million dollar in sales for IBM.

Assuming there are 4000 users created via script (useradd was used) with UIDs ranging from 10000-14000, the testing script below fails on Scale at 1913:

touch file3; for i in {10000..14000}; do echo -ne "$i\t"; setfacl -m u:$i:r file3 || break; done

Idea priority High