Files or directories on a GFS2 file system show different ownership across nodes in the cluster in a RHEL 5, 6, or 7 Resilient Storage cluster

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Issue

  • If I go on node1 and chown -R user:group /directory on a GFS2 file system, then the ownership on node2 changes from user:group to 503:group, and vice-versa if I do this from the other node...
  • When I change the ownership on GFS2 files or directories from one node, I see the ownership on the other node changes to a numeric value instead of the user account it was assigned to.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6, or 7 with the Resilient Storage Add-On
  • GFS2
  • User accounts that access a GFS2 file system from multiple nodes
    • One or more of those user accounts is mapped to a different UID or GID across nodes

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