[Gluster-devel] Ability to turn off 'glusterfs' protocol

Csaba Henk csaba.henk at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 01:10:17 UTC 2015


Hi Niels,

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:08:20PM +0530, Ramana Raja wrote:
>> 1) How would the above suggestion impact gfapi access?
>
> gfapi uses the GlusterFS protocol. When access through the protocol is
> denied, only clients from within the trusted storage pool can use it.
> gfapi is just a client, similar to the FUSE mount.
>
>> 2) Would the list of trusted clients be configured via "gluster volume set"?
>
> There are the 'auth.allow' and 'auth.reject' volume options. I think
> they would be used as an alternative to a "turn off glusterfs protocol"
> feature.

Does it mean that the implementation of feature would essentially boil down
to an auth ruleset calculated by glusterfs?

Csaba


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