Re: [nfs-utils PATCH] nfs4id: a tool to create and persist nfs4 client uniquifiers

[Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>]

On 2/9/22 8:55 AM, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
> On 8 Feb 2022, at 17:30, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
>> Hey!
>>
>> On 2/8/22 3:00 PM, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
>>> On 8 Feb 2022, at 14:52, Steve Dickson wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/8/22 11:22 AM, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
>>>>> On 8 Feb 2022, at 11:04, Steve Dickson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/4/22 7:56 AM, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
>>>>>>> The nfs4id program will either create a new UUID from a random 
>>>>>>> source or
>>>>>>> derive it from /etc/machine-id, else it returns a UUID that has 
>>>>>>> already
>>>>>>> been written to /etc/nfs4-id.  This small, lightweight tool is 
>>>>>>> suitable for
>>>>>>> execution by systemd-udev in rules to populate the nfs4 client 
>>>>>>> uniquifier.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>   .gitignore               |   1 +
>>>>>>>   configure.ac             |   4 +
>>>>>>>   tools/Makefile.am        |   1 +
>>>>>>>   tools/nfs4id/Makefile.am |   8 ++
>>>>>>>   tools/nfs4id/nfs4id.c    | 184 
>>>>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>   tools/nfs4id/nfs4id.man  |  29 ++++++
>>>>>>>   6 files changed, 227 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>   create mode 100644 tools/nfs4id/Makefile.am
>>>>>>>   create mode 100644 tools/nfs4id/nfs4id.c
>>>>>>>   create mode 100644 tools/nfs4id/nfs4id.man
>>>>>> Just a nit... naming convention... In the past
>>>>>> we never put the protocol version in the name.
>>>>>> Do a ls tools and utils directory and you
>>>>>> see what I mean....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would it be a problem to change the name from
>>>>>> nfs4id to nfsid?
>>>>>
>>>>> Not at all..
>>>> Good...
>>>
>>> I didn't orginally do that because I thought it might be confusing 
>>> for some
>>> folks who want `nfsid` to display their kerberos identity.  There's a BZ
>>> open for that!
>>>
>>> Do you think that's a problem?  I feel like it's a problem.
>>>
>>>>> and I think there's a lot of room for naming discussions about
>>>>> the file to store the id too:
>>>>>
>>>>> Trond sent /etc/nfs4_uuid
>>>>> Neil suggests /etc/netns/NAME/nfs.conf.d/identity.conf
>>>>> Ben sent /etc/nfs4-id (to match /etc/machine-id)
>>>> Question... is it kosher to be writing /etc which is
>>>> generally on the root filesystem?
>>>
>>> Sure, why not?
>> In general, writes to /etc are only happen when packages
>> are installed and removed... any real time writes go
>> to /var or /run (which is not persistent).
> 
> I use `passwd` and `usermod`, which write to etc.  I can think of other
> examples.  For me, /etc is fair game.
> 
> There's three of us that think /etc is a good place.  You're the maintainer
> though, tell us what's acceptable.  If we add an -f option to specify the
> file, I'd like there to be a sane default if -f is absent.
/etc is fine...

steved,

> 
>>>> By far Neil suggestion is the most intriguing... but
>>>> on the containers I'm looking at there no /etc/netns
>>>> directory.
>>>
>>> Not yet -- you can create it.
>> "you" meaning who? the nfs-utils install or network
>> namespace env? Or is it, when /etc/netns exists
>> there is a network namespace and we should use
>> that dir?
> 
> Anyone that wants to create network namespace specific configuration can
> create /etc/netns/NAME, and the iproute2 tools will bind-mount 
> configuration
> from there over /etc/ when doing `ip netns exec`.
> 
> Ben
>