[Gluster-users] Using other then Trusted namespace for Gluster Extended Attributes

[Amar Tumballi]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 4:40 PM <benhoventrosky at email.cz> wrote:

> Hi Everybody,
>
> Could you please tell me is it possible to configure Gluster to use other
> namespace then Trusted for Extended Attributes (xattr)?
>
>
Yes


> Or is this something that you plan to develop in future?
> It’s OK to say no ;-).
>
>
No (at least from kadalu.io we have not planned for this work in 2021).


> The reason I’m asking is that in unprivileged container
> (Docker, rootless Podman) it is possible to use "User" namespace
> (setfattr -n user.abc -v "xyz" file will work) but "Trusted" namespace
> is just for root (setfattr -n trusted.abc -v "xyz" file will not work).
>
> Unfortunately Trusted namespace makes impossible to use Gluster
> in rootless containers...
>
>
Just noticed https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1239 also talked
about the same.. added my comments in the issue itself, so we can take the
discussion there.

Regards,
Amar


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>
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