Setting Volume Permission Recursively does not work

[Ico747]

I confirm - it does not work with 8.0.3

[gcooper]

I confirm - it does not work with 8.0.3

Yeah.. this needs more work, but it will be 8.2.1+. For now, please trust your tool that you're using to set the permissions correctly (Explorer, Finder, console, etc).

[Ico747]

Yeah.. this needs more work, but it will be 8.2.1+. For now, please trust your tool that you're using to set the permissions correctly (Explorer, Finder, console, etc).

Tank you very much for your answer. I am new in freenas and freebsd. Do you mean that using other tools I could get the same result. Could you please give an example how to with console?

[gcooper]

Tank you very much for your answer. I am new in freenas and freebsd. Do you mean that using other tools I could get the same result. Could you please give an example how to with console?

Np.

The best recommendation I can give is:

1. Don't set permissions recursively and permissively (setting permissions non-recursively works well).
2. Use your preferred weapon of choice to restrict permissions, whether it is Explorer, Finder, Konqueror, Thunar, etc. If you want to use the command line tools, here are some manpages for using chmod [1] and chown [2]. The setfacl/getfacl manpage is very incomplete (it doesn't describe all of the settable ACLs.. I have a PR open for that)

1. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?chmod
2. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?chown

[KAI]

Recursive permission still seems broken in 8.0.4 as well

[Adub]

Indeed, I too am having issues when attempting to set permisions recursively via the GUI.

If the dataset has any significant size at all (say 100GB), after click the "Change" button on the modal permissions window, the the window just hangs and sits there. I can close it, but none of the permissions are changed.

Since this appears to be broken, I am wondering if it is perfectly safe to run a chown -R command on the dataset. Will it break any permissions issues with the ZFS dataset? Or will it work fine?

Example : "chown -R nobody:storageaccess /mnt/storage/dataset" <- Is this safe?

My freenas version is FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-x64 (10351).

[ash]

with FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-p1-x64 the same issue not working from GUI - stacking without any message for long period of time without changing nothing
only by using chown from console - ok

[sjieke]

I'm still using FreeNAS-8.0.3-p1 (Multimedia edition) and I succesfully changed permissions recursively on an entire dataset using the gui. It takes a very long time, but it gets the job done. If you watch the output of 'top', you will see that a python script gets a lot of cpu resources. That's the one changing the permissions. If it finishes and you then you check the permissions, you will see they are changed.

So you just need to wait a very long time, depending on the size of your dataset.

[ash]

agree, with FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-p1-x64 probably the same issue as stated by sjieke, I would say never was waiting till end of GUI operation, for huge amount of data it doing so long and really I don't see any sign of operation in progress.
Using console chown, chmod working faster.