NFSRODS v1.0.0

June 9-11, 2020

User Group Meeting

Virtual Conference

Kory Draughn

korydraughn@renci.org

Software Developer, iRODS Consortium

NFSRODS v1.0.0

NFSRODS v0.8.0 - Authorization Model

• Mapped traditional Unix permissions
• No group support
• Used world permissions

NFSRODS - What's changed since v0.8.0?

• Permissions are now managed via NFSv4 ACLs
• Groups are fully supported
• Added SSL support
• Added support for LDAP and AD via sssd
• Made it possible to retrieve the Git SHA of your deployment
• NFSRODS properly closes iRODS connections
• NFSRODS correctly handles listing of large collections
• Testing via BATS

NFSRODS v1.0.0 - Authorization Model

• Maps iRODS permissions to/from NFSv4.1 ACLs.
• Traditional UNIX permissions are only set for the owner.
• Permissions managed via nfs4_getfacl and nfs4_setfacl.
• Collections are always executable, while data objects are never executable.

NFSRODS - Enabling SSL/TLS

$ cat /home/ubuntu/nfsrods_config/server.json
{
    "irods_client": {

        "ssl_negotiation_policy": "CS_NEG_REQUIRE"
    }
}

1. NFSRODS Configuration (shaved down for conciseness):

Could also be set to CS_NEG_DONT_CARE.

2. Launch the NFSRODS Docker container with your SSL certificate:

$ docker run -d --name nfsrods \
        -p 3000:2049 \
        -v /home/ubuntu/nfsrods_config:/nfsrods_config:ro \
        -v /etc/passwd:/etc/passwd:ro \
        -v /<full/path/to/certificate.crt>:/nfsrods_ssl.crt:ro \
        irods/nfsrods:latest

NFSRODS - Enabling sssd

$ docker run -d --name nfsrods \
        -p 3000:2049 \
        -v /home/ubuntu/nfsrods_config:/nfsrods_config:ro \
        -v /var/lib/sss:/var/lib/sss \
        irods/nfsrods:latest

Launch the NFSRODS Docker container with the sssd socket:

Thanks to Jonathon Anderson, NFSRODS can use sssd to resolve users and groups as an alternative to /etc/passwd.

Enables support for LDAP and Active Directory.

NFSRODS - Future Work

• Hard Links
• Parallel Transfer
• Performance (e.g. "ls")
• Unit Testing
• NFStest - POSIX Filesystem Level Access Testing

 

• SMBRODS - Possible sister project to make iRODS accessible to Microsoft Windows machines

Questions?

• Thank you!

 

• This version (NFSv4.1) of NFSRODS was built by:
  • Kory Draughn, iRODS Consortium
  • Alek Mieczkowski, iRODS Consortium
  • Mike Conway, NIH/NIEHS
  • Jason Coposky, iRODS Consortium
  • Terrell Russell, iRODS Consortium

 

• Inspired by work (NFSv3) presented at UGM2016 (slides, paper):
  • Danilo Oliveira, Center for Informatics UFPE, Brazil
  • I. Fé, Center for Informatics UFPE, Brazil
  • A. Lobo Jr., Center for Informatics UFPE, Brazil
  • F. Silva, Center for Informatics UFPE, Brazil
  • G. Callou, Center for Informatics UFPE, Brazil
  • V. Alves, Center for Informatics UFPE, Brazil
  • P. Maciel, Center for Informatics UFPE, Brazil
  • Stephen Worth, EMC Corporation

 

• Preliminary testing provided by:
  • Bristol Myers Squibb
  • University of Colorado Boulder Research Computing