Re: [nfs-utils PATCH] nfs4id: a tool to create and persist nfs4 client uniquifiers

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On 8 Feb 2022, at 17:39, Steve Dickson wrote:

On 2/8/22 4:18 PM, Chuck Lever III wrote:


On Feb 8, 2022, at 2:29 PM, Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On 2/8/22 11:21 AM, Chuck Lever III wrote:
On Feb 8, 2022, at 11:04 AM, Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

On 2/4/22 7:56 AM, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
The nfs4id program will either create a new UUID from a random source or derive it from /etc/machine-id, else it returns a UUID that has already been written to /etc/nfs4-id. This small, lightweight tool is suitable for execution by systemd-udev in rules to populate the nfs4 client uniquifier.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx>
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  .gitignore               |   1 +
  configure.ac             |   4 +
  tools/Makefile.am        |   1 +
  tools/nfs4id/Makefile.am |   8 ++
tools/nfs4id/nfs4id.c | 184 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  tools/nfs4id/nfs4id.man  |  29 ++++++
  6 files changed, 227 insertions(+)
  create mode 100644 tools/nfs4id/Makefile.am
  create mode 100644 tools/nfs4id/nfs4id.c
  create mode 100644 tools/nfs4id/nfs4id.man
Just a nit... naming convention... In the past
we never put the protocol version in the name.
Do a ls tools and utils directory and you
see what I mean....

Would it be a problem to change the name from
nfs4id to nfsid?
nfs4id is pretty generic, too.
Can we go with nfs-client-id ?
I'm never been big with putting '-'
in command names... nfscltid would
be better IMHO... if we actually
need the 'clt' in the name.

We have nfsidmap already. IMO we need some distinction
with user ID mapping tools... and some day we might
want to manage server IDs too (see EXCHANGE_ID).
Hmm... So we could not use the same tool to do
both the server and client, via flags?


nfsclientid then?
You like to type more than I do... You always have... :-)

But like I started the conversation... the naming is
a nit... but I would like to see one tool to set the
ids for both the server and client... how about
nfsid -s and nfsid -c

The tricky thing here is that this little binary isn't going to set
anything, and we probably never want people to run it from the command line.

A 'nfsid -s' and 'nfsid -c' seem to want to do much more. I feel they are
out of scope for the problem I'm trying to solve:  I need something that
will generate a unique value, and persist it, suitable for execution in a
udevd rule.

Perhaps we can stop worrying so much about the name of this as I don't think it should be a first-class nfs-utils command, rather just a helper for udev.

And maybe the name can reflect that - "nfsuuid" ?

Ben




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