ACL hell

[Bingo]

Hey

I want to use a couple of zpools in Windows for applications, games, etc.

I'm having a problem right now with file permissions. Datasets seem to be configured correctly for Windows (I'm guessing, since I don't really use Windows except for particular apps - I'm used to macOS and Manjaro). Owner is "SYSTEM" by default, and "Administrators" - which would include me - have full permissions.

However, every file or folder I create is, well, created, but it is owned by SYSTEM, and I then have to provide UAC administrator elevation to do anything, like renaming. This also means that files created by apps fail, e.g. trying to download with Firefox results in a 0-byte file being created, and it then fails as it either wants to rename it, or it wants to move a temporary *.part file to the final destination file.

I've tried taking ownership of everything, giving full permissions to every user account, I've tried,

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takeown /f T: /r /d y

and

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icacls T:/* /reset /t

, but it simply does not help.

I've tried setting xattr to off, acltype to "none," and aclmode and aclinherit both to "discard," but again to no avail.

I cannot create a folder or a file on any ZFS dataset without having to immediately provide administrator privileges afterwards to do anything with it. It's driving me nuts

If I format a regular drive, this simply never happens. What is going on? How do I make it stop?

Is there a way to just completely remove ACLs/permissions from a pool or a dataset, as if it were FAT32 or exFAT?

Thanks.

BTW: This is a fresh Windows 10 LTSC 21H2 installation with the latest cumulative update installed.

[jawbroken]

if you're creating these folders and files at the root of the pool then you get the same behaviour by default on macOS i think. personally, i just put everything inside a folder in the pool (e.g. pool/files) which works great, but there's probably a nicer way to fix this. i've just been doing it since the pre-OpenZFS/ZEVO days and haven't looked much into it