On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Gregory Farnum <g...@gregs42.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Sage Weil <s...@newdream.net> wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, John Spray wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Gregory Farnum <g...@gregs42.com> wrote: > >> > My concern is whether we as the FS are responsible for doing anything > >> > more than storing and returning that immutable flag ? are we supposed > >> > to block writes to anything that has it set? That could be much > >> > trickier... > >> > >> The VFS layer is checking the flag for us, but some filesystems do > >> have paths where they need to do their own too (e.g. XFS has various > >> ioctls that do explicit checks too). It's also up to us to publish > >> the S_IMMUTABLE bit to the i_flags attribute of the generic inode, > >> based on wherever/however we store the flag ourselves. > >> > >> Fuse doesn't seem to have a path for us to update i_flags though, so > >> it might be that we either have to extend that interface or do the > >> checking ourselves in userspace in order to support it there. > > > > It seems like we should be checking S_IMMUTABLE in the MDS and, > > when set, refusing to issue write caps. We probably also need a check in > > the clients so that they return EROFS (I assume?) instead of waiting for > > said caps... > > > > In any case, I don't think relying on clients to cooperate is quite the > > level protection S_IMMUTABLE users are looking for? > > Indeed. On the other hand, it's not like an S_IMMUTABLE user on a > local FS couldn't bypass it by mounting with a hacked filesystem, and > that's sort of analogous to the protection you'd get by not offering > up write caps to anybody. > Anything more extreme would require OSD-side protections, which is a > research topic I'm interested in but not anything we have a near-term > solution for.... ;) > -Greg
I created a feature request to add support for chattr +i to cephfs http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/10679 Thanks Eric _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
