Re: Protecting Files in CephFS from accidental deletion or encryption

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On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 12:20 PM Ramana Krisna Venkatesh Raja
<rraja@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 11:14 AM Stefan Kooman <stefan@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 12/19/22 16:46, Christoph Adomeit wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > we are planning an archive with cephfs containing 2 Petabytes of Data
> > > on 200 slow S-ATA Disks on a single cephfs with 150 subdirectories. The Disks
> > > will be around 80% full (570 TB of Data, 3-way replication).
> > >
> > > Since this is an archive most of the data will be written once and read only
> > > sometimes. Deletions are very seldom. Changes of the filesystem in general
> > > are not very often.
> > >
> > > The cephfs is exported via samba.
> > >
> > > Now I am thinking about how we can protect the data from accidental deletion
> > > or from malicious deletion from people knowing the login data.
> > >
> > > Also protection from administrator errors might be a good idea, imagine an
> > > admin on shell running an  rsync --delete /usbdisk/ /cephfs/
> >
> > This might help when using kernel cephfs mounts:
> >
> > https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/cephfs/client-auth/#root-squash
>
> The "root-squash" feature currently doesn't work as expected,
> https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/56067 . So you wouldn't want to use it
> until the bug is fixed.
>

Maybe it's better to remove the "root-squash" section from the docs
until the feature is fixed, or include a warning in the docs that the
feature doesn't work?

-Ramana

> -Ramana
>
> >
> > Gr. Stefan
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