Re: [gpfsug-discuss] multicluster security

HI Aaron, not sure, if we are ready to talk/ distribute pnfs4.1 experiences here.. I know one customer doing pNFS and for myself , we did a lot of testing hereplease contact me directly .. let's see, how I can help .. From:        Aaron Knister To:        

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] multicluster security

Interesting! Thank you for the explanation. This makes me wish GPFS had a client access model that more closely mimicked parallel NAS, specifically for this reason. That then got me wondering about pNFS support. I've not been able to find much about that but in theory Ganesha supports pNFS. Does

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] multicluster security

Hi Aaron, If cluster A uses the mmauth command to grant a file system read-only access to a remote cluster B, nodes on cluster B can only mount that file system with read-only access. But the only checking being done at the RPC level is the TLS authentication. This should prevent non-root