To enable file metadata synchronization:
1.In the Synchronize File Security Information section, select when you want the metadata replicated (you can select one or both options):
•Enable synchronizing file security information in real-time - Select this option if you want the metadata synchronized in real-time. If enabled, changes to the selected access controls (Owner, Group, Linux Permissions, and ACL) will be synchronized to all participants as they occur.
•Enable synchronizing file security information with master host during initial scan - Select this option if you want the metadata replicated during the initial scan. If enabled, changes to the selected access controls (Owner, Group, Linux Permissions, and ACL) will be synchronized during the initial scan.
Note: Nutanix does not support Access Control Lists (ACL) in the Network File System (NFS) version 4 (NFSv4) or POSIX formats.
2.If you selected an option in Synchronize File Security Information, click OK in the message that appears.
3.Select Enable prevention or corrupt or blank Owner or ACLS on source or master host from being applied to any target host if you want to ensure that if there are any issues with the ownership or ACLs on the source or master host (such as corruption or being blank), these issues will not propagate to the target host. Instead, the replication process will either skip or correct these problematic ownership or ACL entries to maintain data integrity and security on the target host.
4.Select the access controls (Owner, Group, Linux Permissions, and ACL) that you want to synchronize.
5.If you selected the option for metadata synchronization with the master host during the initial scan, select the host to be used as the master host in case of file metadata conflict.
If a master host is not selected, then no metadata synchronization will be performed during the initial scan. If one or more security descriptors do not match across participants during the initial scan, conflict resolution will use permissions from the designated master host as the winner. If the file does not exist on the designated master host, a winner will be randomly picked from the other participants.
6.Click Next.
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