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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs