One cluster, serveral apps: Authentication?
Luis Zarrabeitia
kyrie at uh.cu
Thu Aug 2 16:12:59 UTC 2007
Hi there.
I work at an university, and frequently there are
students/professors/researches asking for (reliable) disk space for the apps
they develop. Some of those may make it to production, some of them don't,
but it is a shame that lack of storage may stop them. For most of their
needs, MogileFS seems to be a great solution, so I'm planning to set up a
Mogile cluster.
The problem is, it will be hosting file for different apps, developed by
different people. There is an obvious use for namespaces there, but:
* is there some kind of access control? Could I say "this app/user/whatever
can only read/write/whatever from this namespace"? (ideally, per-file
settings would be better, but per-namespace is enough for now).
* As disk space is scarce, a similar setting for the replication classes would
be great: "this user/app/whatever can only put files in class 'development'
with a repcount of 2, this other can put them in class 'production' with
repcount 3, etc".
I have neither installed Mogile or read the sources yet, but from the
documentation, it seems neither of those is possible right now. (In fact, I
can't even find anthing about security: how to prevent a computer on the
network from connecting to the daemon and deleting files/devies). Am I wrong?
Would it be too hard/disruptive to add at least the first one? Where should I
start?
(I fear perl... but not nearly enough to walk away from this project :D)
--
Luis Zarrabeitia (aka Kyrie)
Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH.
http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie
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