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Allen Wittenauer commented on HDFS-7146:
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bq. I personally think fixing the jira here first would allow us to make better
progress.
... until you hit the next issue. and the issue after that. and the issue
after that.
One of the big wins of common is that shared code is better debugged code. The
existing NFS code is similar to the stuff that hadoop had in common about 4
years ago. It isn't productive to continue going down this path. As a
community, we already have experience with shelling out to get this info. It's
the whole reason that libhadoop.so approx doubled in size to avoid having to
deal with these issues.
I don't particularly care to put in more bandages on a broken implementation.
I'm still -1, regardless of the impact on your customers.
> NFS ID/Group lookup requires SSSD enumeration on the server
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>
> Key: HDFS-7146
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7146
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: nfs
> Affects Versions: 2.6.0
> Reporter: Yongjun Zhang
> Assignee: Yongjun Zhang
> Attachments: HDFS-7146.001.patch, HDFS-7146.002.allIncremental.patch,
> HDFS-7146.003.patch
>
>
> The current implementation of the NFS UID and GID lookup works by running
> 'getent passwd' with an assumption that it will return the entire list of
> users available on the OS, local and remote (AD/etc.).
> This behaviour of the command is advised to be and is prevented by
> administrators in most secure setups to avoid excessive load to the ADs
> involved, as the # of users to be listed may be too large, and the repeated
> requests of ALL users not present in the cache would be too much for the AD
> infrastructure to bear.
> The NFS server should likely do lookups based on a specific UID request, via
> 'getent passwd <UID>', if the UID does not match a cached value. This reduces
> load on the LDAP backed infrastructure.
> Thanks [~qwertymaniac] for reporting the issue.
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