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June 27th, 2012 07:00

Permission changes took all night?

We're refreshing a folder structure on a production EMC CIFS share.  It's as simple as removing/simplifying a few top level folders as well as consolidating windows groups into a select few.  We replaced all permissions all the way down the tree to match the top level.  This process ran all night and still hasn't completed.  In a non EMC environment this task takes 5-10 minutes max.  It's about 100 Gig of files.

I checked the data mover CPU and it's at 1%. 

Any suggestions?

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June 27th, 2012 08:00

how many inodes on that file system ?

server_df server_2 -inode

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June 27th, 2012 09:00

EMC CIFS, you are setting ACLs over the network, where Windows server sets it locally on its file system.

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June 27th, 2012 09:00

am i reading that correct, 75 million objects ?

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June 27th, 2012 09:00

you can have a relatively small file system capacity wise but have a huge number of tiny files, so it would not surprise me that a process that needs to traverse the whole file system takes that long.

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June 27th, 2012 09:00

Any thoughts why a physical or VM windows OS file system can do the same task in 5-10 minutes while it takes EMC CIFS 15+ hours to complete?

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June 27th, 2012 09:00

$ server_df server_2 -inode NYOSHARE

server_2 :

Filesystem inodes used avail capacity Mounted on

NYOSHARE 75571198 444598 75126600 1% /root_vdm_1/NYOSHARE

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June 27th, 2012 09:00

Yes, I’m not familiar with iNode and I was wrong about the filesystem size. It is actually closer to 250Gig, 130,000 files and 25,000 folders. I compared these to other filesystems on the NS-120 as well as filesystems on another NS-120 and they are in this range or at least orders of magnitude.

Perhaps we simply need to run a clean-up command, or?

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