1VFS_GPFS(8) System Administration tools VFS_GPFS(8)
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6 vfs_gpfs - gpfs specific samba extensions like acls
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9 vfs objects = gpfs
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12 This VFS module is part of the samba(7) suite.
13 The gpfs VFS module is the home for all gpfs extensions that Samba
15 requires for proper integration with GPFS. It uses the GPL library
16 interfaces provided by GPFS.
17 Currently the gpfs vfs module provides extensions in following areas :
19 • NFSv4 ACL Interfaces with configurable options for GPFS
21 • Kernel oplock support on GPFS
23 • Lease support on GPFS
25 NOTE: This module follows the posix-acl behaviour and hence allows
28 permission stealing via chown. Samba might allow at a later point in
29 time, to restrict the chown via this module as such restrictions are
30 the responsibility of the underlying filesystem than of Samba.
31 This module makes use of the smb.conf parameter acl map full control.
33 When set to yes (the default), this parameter will add in the
34 FILE_DELETE_CHILD bit on a returned ACE entry for a file (not a
35 directory) that already contains all file permissions except for
36 FILE_DELETE and FILE_DELETE_CHILD. This can prevent Windows
37 applications that request GENERIC_ALL access from getting ACCESS_DENIED
38 errors when running against a filesystem with NFSv4 compatible ACLs.
39 This module is stackable.
41 Since Samba 4.0 all options are per share options.
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45 gpfs:sharemodes = [ yes | no ]
46 Enable/Disable cross node sharemode handling for GPFS.
47 • yes(default) - propagate sharemodes across all GPFS
49 nodes.
50 • no - do not propagate sharemodes across all GPFS nodes.
52 This should only be used if the GPFS file system is
53 exclusively exported by Samba. Access by local unix
54 application or NFS exports could lead to corrupted
55 files.
56 gpfs:leases = [ yes | no ]
59 Enable/Disable cross node leases (oplocks) for GPFS. You should
60 also set the oplocks and kernel oplocks options to the same value.
61 • yes(default) - propagate leases across all GPFS nodes.
63 • no - do not propagate leases across all GPFS nodes. This
65 should only be used if the GPFS file system is
66 exclusively exported by Samba. Access by local unix
67 application or NFS exports could lead to corrupted
68 files.
69 gpfs:hsm = [ yes | no ]
72 Enable/Disable announcing if this FS has HSM enabled.
73 • no(default) - Do not announce HSM.
75 • yes - Announce HSM.
77 gpfs:recalls = [ yes | no ]
80 When this option is set to no, an attempt to open an offline file
81 will be rejected with access denied. This helps preventing recall
82 storms triggered by careless applications like Finder and Explorer.
83 • yes(default) - Open files that are offline. This will
85 recall the files from HSM.
86 • no - Reject access to offline files with access denied.
88 This will prevent recalls of files from HSM. Using this
89 setting also requires gpfs:hsm to be set to yes.
90 gpfs:getrealfilename = [ yes | no ]
93 Enable/Disable usage of the gpfs_get_realfilename_path() function.
94 This improves the casesensitive wildcard file name access.
95 • yes(default) - use gpfs_get_realfilename_path().
97 • no - do not use gpfs_get_realfilename_path(). It seems
99 that gpfs_get_realfilename_path() doesn't work on AIX.
100 gpfs:winattr = [ yes | no ]
103 Enable/Disable usage of the windows attributes in GPFS. GPFS is
104 able to store windows file attributes e.g. HIDDEN, READONLY, SYSTEM
105 and others natively. That means Samba doesn't need to map them to
106 permission bits or extended attributes.
107 • no(default) - do not use GPFS windows attributes.
109 • yes - use GPFS windows attributes.
111 gpfs:acl = [ yes | no ]
114 This option lets Samba use or ignore GPFS ACLs.
115 • yes(default) - use GPFS ACLs.
117 • no - do not use GPFS ACLs and pass everything to the
119 next SMB_VFS module.
120 gpfs:check_fstype = [ yes | no ]
123 Check for a mounted GPFS file system on access to a SMB share.
124 • yes(default) - Check that the SMB share path is on a
126 GPFS file system. Share access will be denied when a
127 different file system is found.
128 • no - skip check for GPFS file system on SMB share path.
130 gpfs:refuse_dacl_protected = [ yes | no ]
133 As GPFS does not support the ACE4_FLAG_NO_PROPAGATE NFSv4 flag
134 (which would be the mapping for the DESC_DACL_PROTECTED flag), the
135 status of this flag is currently silently ignored by Samba. That
136 means that if you deselect the "Allow inheritable permissions..."
137 checkbox in Windows' ACL dialog and then apply the ACL, the flag
138 will be back immediately.
139 To make sure that automatic migration with e.g. robocopy does not
141 lead to ACLs silently (and unintentionally) changed, you can set
142 gpfs:refuse_dacl_protected = yes to enable an explicit check for
143 this flag and if set, it will return NT_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED so
144 errors are shown up on the Windows side and the Administrator is
145 aware of the ACLs not being settable like intended
146 • no(default) - ignore the DESC_DACL_PROTECTED flags.
148 • yes - reject ACLs with DESC_DACL_PROTECTED.
150 gpfs:dfreequota = [ yes | no ]
153 Adjust reporting of the size and free space of a share according to
154 quotas. If this setting is "yes", a request for size and free space
155 will also evaluate the user quota of the user requesting the data
156 and the group quota of the primary group of the user. Fileset
157 quotas are not queried, since GPFS already provides the option
158 --dfreequota to reflect the fileset quota in the free space query.
159 Please use that option to include fileset quotas in the reported
160 disk space.
161 If any of the soft or hard quota limits has been reached, the free
163 space will be reported as 0. If a quota is in place, but the limits
164 have not been reached, the free space will be reported according to
165 the space left in the quota. If more than one quota applies the
166 free space will be reported as the smallest space left in those
167 quotas. The size of the share will be reported according to the
168 quota usage. If more than one quota applies, the smallest size will
169 be reported for the share size according to these quotas.
170 • yes - include the quotas when reporting the share size
172 and free space
173 • no(default) - do not include quotas, simply report the
175 size and free space of the file system
176 gpfs:settimes = [ yes | no ]
179 Use the gpfs_set_times API when changing the timestamps of a file
180 or directory. If the GPFS API is not available the old method of
181 using utime and the GPFS winattr call will be used instead.
182 • yes(default) - Use gpfs_set_times. Fall back to utime
184 and winattr when it is not available.
185 • no - Do not use gpfs_set_times.
187 nfs4:mode = [ simple | special ]
190 Controls substitution of special IDs (OWNER@ and GROUP@) on GPFS.
191 The use of mode simple is recommended. In this mode only non
192 inheriting ACL entries for the file owner and group are mapped to
193 special IDs.
194 The following MODEs are understood by the module:
196 • simple(default) - use OWNER@ and GROUP@ special IDs for
198 non inheriting ACEs only.
199 • special(deprecated) - use OWNER@ and GROUP@ special IDs
201 in ACEs for all file owner and group ACEs.
202 nfs4:acedup = [dontcare|reject|ignore|merge]
205 This parameter configures how Samba handles duplicate ACEs
206 encountered in GPFS ACLs. GPFS allows/creates duplicate ACE for
207 different bits for same ID.
208 Following is the behaviour of Samba for different values :
210 • dontcare - copy the ACEs as they come
212 • reject (deprecated) - stop operation and exit with error
214 on ACL set op
215 • ignore (deprecated) - don't include the second matching
217 ACE
218 • merge (default) - bitwise OR the 2 ace.flag fields and 2
220 ace.mask fields of the 2 duplicate ACEs into 1 ACE
221 nfs4:chown = [yes|no]
224 This parameter allows enabling or disabling the chown supported by
225 the underlying filesystem. This parameter should be enabled with
226 care as it might leave your system insecure.
227 Some filesystems allow chown as a) giving b) stealing. It is the
229 latter that is considered a risk.
230 Following is the behaviour of Samba for different values :
232 • yes - Enable chown if as supported by the under
234 filesystem
235 • no (default) - Disable chown
237 gpfs:syncio = [yes|no]
240 This parameter makes Samba open all files with O_SYNC. This
241 triggers optimizations in GPFS for workloads that heavily share
242 files.
243 Following is the behaviour of Samba for different values:
245 • yes - Open files with O_SYNC
247 • no (default) - Open files as normal Samba would do
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252 A GPFS mount can be exported via Samba as follows :
253 [samba_gpfs_share]
255 vfs objects = gpfs
256 path = /test/gpfs_mount
257 nfs4: mode = special
258 nfs4: acedup = merge
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261 Depending on the version of gpfs, the libgpfs_gpl library or the
262 libgpfs library is needed at runtime by the gpfs VFS module: Starting
263 with gpfs 3.2.1 PTF8, the complete libgpfs is available as open source
264 and libgpfs_gpl does no longer exist. With earlier versions of gpfs,
265 only the libgpfs_gpl library was open source and could be used at run
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267 At build time, only the header file gpfs_gpl.h is required, which is a
269 symlink to gpfs.h in gpfs versions newer than 3.2.1 PTF8.
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272 This man page is part of version 4.16.2 of the Samba suite.
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275 The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
276 Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
277 Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
278 The GPFS VFS module was created with contributions from Volker Lendecke
280 and the developers at IBM.
281 This manpage was created by the IBM FSCC team
283Samba 4.16.2 06/13/2022 VFS_GPFS(8)