Speed up "minimize access on found files" task

[907th]

Hello! "minimize access on found files" is a veryyyyy looong task. Do you consider any improvements on the speed of this task?

[rndmh3ro]

Hey @907th,

yeah, that's pretty slow. However this is really hard to get right.
I'm playing around with async and loops but thats really complicated with inner and outer loops.
And even if I get this running, I don't know if the speed will improve.

Here's my current state:

- name: get all folders asynced
  tags: loop
  find:
    paths: "{{ async_item }}"
    recurse: yes
    file_type: file
    hidden: true
  async: 450
  poll: 10
  loop: "{{ all_folders }}"
  loop_control:
    loop_var: "async_item"
  register: async_results

#- name: Check sync status
#  tags: loop
#  async_status:
#    jid: "{{ async_result_item.ansible_job_id }}"
#  loop: "{{ async_results.results }}"
#  loop_control:
#    loop_var: "async_result_item"
#  register: async_poll_results
#  until: async_poll_results.finished
#  retries: 30


- name: minimize access on found files
  tags: loop
  file:
    path: '{{ item.1.path }}'
    mode: 'go-w'
    state: file
  #with_items: '{{ async_results.results}}'
  with_subelements:
    - '{{ async_results.results}}'
    - 'files'

[907th]

@rndmh3ro How about executing a shell script which would find and fix file permissions right on the remote server, without looping on ansible machine?

[rndmh3ro]

Yeah, or just a command with file... I'll have to check what to use. Looping and the current solution are not optimal.

[rndmh3ro]

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