From: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
To: Dwight Engen <dwight.engen@oracle.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@gmail.com>,
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] ioctl eofblocks: require non-privileged users to specify uid/gid match
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:21:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D17457.7090001@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130628192238.7d8bc38c@oracle.com>
On 06/28/2013 07:22 PM, Dwight Engen wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:39:13 -0400
> Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 06/28/2013 04:28 PM, Dwight Engen wrote:
>>> On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:50:24 -0400
>>> Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 06/28/2013 11:11 AM, Dwight Engen wrote:
...
>>
>> To be honest, there aren't any real users of the eofblocks command
>> from userspace that I'm aware of at the moment. I added it originally
>> for a poc quota implementation I was working on for gluster, but the
>> primary use case for the scanning mechanism is to allow background
>> clean up of files such that post-eof speculative preallocation
>> doesn't hang around for too long.
>
> ... and there are likely to be scenarios where waiting for the timer
> would be too long?
>
Well one can adjust the timer via the /proc file if necessary. Our use
case was along the lines of ensuring prealloc was cleared up at certain
points where we wanted to track space usage (using a cluster of XFS
project quotas to represent a higher level quota), iirc. It's been a
while since I've looked at that code... ;)
>>> Maybe this permission stuff should be a separate change since it
>>> isn't really related to user namespace stuff? I just happened to be
>>> in the vicinity and am happy to help :)
>>>
>>
>> Sounds reasonable to me. :)
>
> If you want me to code up either option, let me know.
>
Feel free to. :) I agree that it's separate from the userns work.
I'll put it on my todo list if you don't get around to it.
Brian
>> Brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-01 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-19 15:09 [PATCH] userns: Convert xfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate Dwight Engen
2013-06-19 20:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-06-20 1:41 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-20 13:54 ` Dwight Engen
2013-06-20 21:10 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-20 0:13 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-20 13:54 ` Dwight Engen
2013-06-20 15:27 ` Brian Foster
2013-06-20 17:39 ` Dwight Engen
2013-06-20 19:12 ` Brian Foster
2013-06-20 22:12 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-20 22:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-06-20 23:35 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-20 22:03 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-21 15:14 ` Dwight Engen
2013-06-24 0:33 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-24 13:10 ` [PATCH v2 RFC] " Dwight Engen
2013-06-25 16:46 ` Brian Foster
2013-06-25 20:08 ` Dwight Engen
2013-06-25 21:04 ` Brian Foster
2013-06-26 2:09 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-26 21:30 ` Dwight Engen
2013-06-26 22:44 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-27 13:02 ` Serge Hallyn
2013-06-28 1:54 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-28 15:25 ` Serge Hallyn
2013-06-28 16:16 ` Dwight Engen
2013-06-27 20:57 ` Ben Myers
2013-06-28 1:46 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-28 15:15 ` Serge Hallyn
2013-06-28 14:23 ` Dwight Engen
2013-06-28 15:11 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] " Dwight Engen
2013-06-28 15:11 ` [PATCH 1/6] create wrappers for converting kuid_t to/from uid_t Dwight Engen
2013-06-28 15:11 ` [PATCH 2/6] convert kuid_t to/from uid_t in ACLs Dwight Engen
2013-06-28 15:11 ` [PATCH 3/6] ioctl: check for capabilities in the current user namespace Dwight Engen
2013-06-28 15:11 ` [PATCH 4/6] convert kuid_t to/from uid_t for xfs internal structures Dwight Engen
2013-06-28 15:11 ` [PATCH 5/6] create internal eofblocks structure with kuid_t types Dwight Engen
2013-06-28 18:09 ` Brian Foster
2013-06-28 15:11 ` [PATCH 6/6] ioctl eofblocks: require non-privileged users to specify uid/gid match Dwight Engen
2013-06-28 18:50 ` Brian Foster
2013-06-28 20:28 ` Dwight Engen
2013-06-28 21:39 ` Brian Foster
2013-06-28 23:22 ` Dwight Engen
2013-07-01 12:21 ` Brian Foster [this message]
2013-07-06 4:44 ` [PATCH 1/1] export inode_capable Serge Hallyn
2013-07-08 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 RFC] userns: Convert xfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate Serge Hallyn
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