[Gluster-devel] Reading GFID from libgfapi (unprivileged)

[Vijay Bellur]

On 07/10/2013 10:59 AM, Louis Zuckerman wrote:
> That's great!  Also Joe Julian just chatted me on IRC that the inode
> number from glfs_lstat might be the GFID.  I'm going to implement that
> for now.  Does that sound right to you?

The inode number from glfs_lstat is not the GFID. ino in stbuf is 
usually 64 bits and gfid is a 128 bit value. However if you are looking 
at an unique identifier for a file, looking at ino from stat should be fine.

-Vijay

>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com
> <mailto:vbellur at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 07/10/2013 09:45 AM, Louis Zuckerman wrote:
>
>         In order to implement the following I need to read the GFID of a
>         file
>         through libgfapi from an unprivileged client process.
>
>         http://docs.oracle.com/javase/__7/docs/api/java/nio/file/__attribute/BasicFileAttributes.__html#fileKey()
>         <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/attribute/BasicFileAttributes.html#fileKey()>
>
>         I know of no way to do this.  Is it possible?
>
>
>     This patch under review might help:
>
>     http://review.gluster.org/#/c/__5129/
>     <http://review.gluster.org/#/c/5129/>
>
>     -Vijay
>
>
>
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