On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 at 14:56, Mohit Agrawal <moagr...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a query specific to authenticate a client based on the PID > (client-pid). > It can break the bricks xlator functionality, Usually, on the brick side > we take a decision about the > source of fop request based on PID.If PID value is -ve xlator considers > the request has come from an internal > client otherwise it has come from an external client. > > If a user has mounted the volume through fuse after provide --client-pid > to command line argument similar to internal client PID > in that case brick_xlator consider external fop request also as an > internal and it will break functionality. > > We are checking pid in (lease, posix-lock, worm, trash) xlator to know > about the source of the fops. > Even there are other brick xlators also we are checking specific PID > value for all internal > clients that can be break if the external client has the same pid. > > My query is why we need to expose client-pid as an argument to the fuse > process? > I don't think this is a default value to the fuse mount. One place where this helps us is with the script based file migration and rebalance - we can provide a negative pid to the special client mount to ensure these fops are also treated as internal fops. In the meantime I do not see the harm in having this option available as it allows a specific purpose. Are there any other client processes that use this? I think we need to resolve it. Please share your view on the same. > > Thanks, > Mohit Agrawal > _______________________________________________ > > Community Meeting Calendar: > > APAC Schedule - > Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 11:30 AM IST > Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/118564314 > > NA/EMEA Schedule - > Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 01:00 PM EDT > Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/118564314 > > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@gluster.org > https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > >
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