Re: Using fuse for AFS/DFS (was Re: [OpenAFS-devel] openafs / opendfs collaboration)

2005-01-30 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:40:35PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > the kernel-part of fuse tells any kernel-level callers to > > "go away, come back later". > > > > obviously this gives time for the kernel-part to "wake up" the > > userspace daemon, obtain an answer, such that when the kerne

Re: Using fuse for AFS/DFS (was Re: [OpenAFS-devel] openafs / opendfs collaboration)

2005-01-30 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > There are two choices for the security model in FUSE. The first > > choice is that the userspace filesystem does the permission checking > > in each operation. Current uid and gid is available, group list is > > presently not. > > > The other choice is that the kernel does the normal file m

Re: Using fuse for AFS/DFS (was Re: [OpenAFS-devel] openafs / opendfs collaboration)

2005-01-30 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 12:13:04PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > *) Last time I looked at FUSE the security model was: If the current uid > > > equals the owner of the mountpoint then forward the request to the > > > userland daemon, without any authentication information like for example > >

Re: Using fuse for AFS/DFS (was Re: [OpenAFS-devel] openafs / opendfs collaboration)

2005-01-30 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > *) Last time I looked at FUSE the security model was: If the current uid > > equals the owner of the mountpoint then forward the request to the > > userland daemon, without any authentication information like for example > > the current uid. This might have or could be changed though. > > as

Using fuse for AFS/DFS (was Re: [OpenAFS-devel] openafs / opendfs collaboration)

2005-01-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:45:08PM +0100, Alexander Bostr?m wrote: > fre 2005-01-21 klockan 12:22 -0500 skrev Derrick J Brashear: > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:00:59AM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote: > > > >> It seems like Arla would probabl