extended file attributes on external devices
by Christoph Höger
Hi,
I've recently bought a usb-pen-drive to carry all my private data with
me. I encrypted it with LUKS and created an ext3 file system because I
wanted a journal. Then I noticed that mounting that drive on another
machine will cause the uid to be set to the uid from the machine where
the stick was formatted.
This is bad. I would consider to make gnome-mount use chown and use the
uid of the gnome-session owner.
How about that?
christoph
16 years, 2 months
InstantMirror needs a rethink
by Warren Togami
Today InstantMirror is pretty useful for home and small office mirrors,
but its limitations make it unsustainable without manual intervention of
the sysadmin.
I've been beginning to think that perhaps InstantMirror is heading down
the wrong path and we seriously need to rethink it. There are simply
too many limitations of the current "stateless" operation of
InstantMirror where it runs only on-demand as mod_python script:
- Synchronization/locking of multiple connections downloading the same
file is awkward and broken.
- There is no good way to clean up aborted tmp files.
- There is no good way to know what are old files that need pruning.
- There is no good way of keeping track of the "Big Picture" of its own
cache, "least recently used" knowing what files were unpopular locally
and should be pruned.
https://fedorahosted.org/InstantMirror/wiki/InstantMirrorDaemon
We need a daemon to handle all this. Perhaps the daemon could allow
socket connections from a mod_python script for accesses. Or perhaps it
might be better for the daemon itself to handle serving connections.
Stepping back, what we really need is:
A reverse proxy caching server with all the logic of squid or varnish,
except it stores its cache with file and directory names intact.
How do we get there?
1) Write a new daemon from scratch?
2) Write a new backend storage engine for squid or varnish? (Store
files in target directory structure, store metadata elsewhere.)
3) ???
Any thoughts?
Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com
16 years, 2 months
Rawhide to mirrors status
by Mike Chambers
Has rawhide actually composed and built packages and sent out to the
mirrors in the last day or two? Just noticed, or at least think I did,
that my mirror hasn't had any updates in the last couple days. And they
usually have it pretty snappy.
--
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
"The best lil town on Earth!"
16 years, 2 months
Announcing FAS2 Tests!
by Mike McGrath
Well, we've been working on it for a long time and even with a last minute
core technology change FAS2 is ready for testing and almost ready for
deployment. What is FAS2 you ask? Its the second iteration of the Fedora
Accounts System. It's based off of TurboGears and has so many standards
and future expandability I won't even go into that here. What I will say
is that we'd like everyone to come test it before we deploy it in the next
week or two.
The test site is at: https://publictest10.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
This system is completely separate from the current running system so feel
free to come in, setup a test account, or 2 or 10, and groups. If you'd
like admin or sponsor access to a group just stop by #fedora-admin and ask
for it and someone will set you up. What are features to look forward to
in FAS2?
* Online help system
* Translations (the systems there but without translations currently)
* JSON Interface
* More comprehensive client for shell access
* Easier to sign the CLA
* OpenID interface (work in progress)
* Much less developer-centeric interface
To get your own local install going just run:
yum install git-core
git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-infrastructure.git/
cd fedora-infrastructure.git/fas
vi README
If you have any bugs to report please send them to:
https://fedorahosted.org/fas2/
We're also taking feature requests though they will likely not make it
into the initial deployment. Happy hacking!
16 years, 2 months
Re: Proposal: Fedora@Home Project
by Frank Ch. Eigler
Bryan Che <bche(a)redhat.com> writes:
> [...] Ideally, we could include the client software for computation
> as part of Fedora distributions and build out a large, million+ node
> open grid for things like Fedora infrastructure tasks, scientific
> computing, or socially-beneficial work. [...]
Could you say a word or two about the security implications of this
proposal? How would you convince a random fedora user that installing
this is safe to his machine / data / resources?
- FChE
16 years, 2 months
