[Gluster-users] C/C++ lib equivalent of hadoop-glusterfs

[Jeff Darcy]

On 06/18/2012 11:40 PM, Vlad wrote:
> Yes, I've figured out from the Java implementation that the API reads
> trusted.glusterfs.pathinfo xattr. This could be done in C/C++ easily enough
> without a dedicated lib, but the fact that the attribute is in trusted.*
> namespace implies that the reading process must be privileged, if I am not
> mistaken. It seems to me that this will be a problem for many end-user
> workloads...
> 

That's a good point.  I suspect that it's in "trusted" just because that's what
we use for most others, but in this particular case "user" might make more sense.