[Gluster-users] Files losing permissions

[Justin Dossey]

Do you know whether it's acceptable to modify permissions on the brick
itself (as opposed to over NFS or via the fuse client)?  It seems that as
long as I don't modify the xattrs, the permissions I set on files on the
bricks are passed through.


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Joel Young <jdy at cryregarder.com> wrote:

> I am not seeing exactly that, but I am experiencing the permission for
> the root directory of a gluster volume reverting from a particular
> user.user to root.root ownership.  I have to periodically do a "cd
> /share; chown user.user . "
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Justin Dossey <jbd at podomatic.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a relatively-new GlusterFS 3.3.2 4-node cluster in
> > distributed-replicated mode running in a production environment.
> >
> > After adding bricks from nodes 3 and 4 (which changed the cluster type
> from
> > simple replicated-2 to distributed-replicated-2), I've discovered that
> files
> > are randomly losing their permissions.  These are files that aren't being
> > accessed by our clients-- some of them haven't been touched for years.
> >
> > When I say "losing their permissions", I mean that regular files are
> going
> > from 0644 to 0000 or 1000.
> >
> > Since this is a real production issue, I run a parallel find process to
> > correct them every ten minutes.  It has corrected approximately 40,000
> files
> > in the past 18 hours.
> >
> > Is anyone else seeing this kind of issue?  My searches have turned up
> > nothing so far.
> >
> > --
> > Justin Dossey
> > CTO, PodOmatic
> >
> >
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-- 
Justin Dossey
CTO, PodOmatic
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