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  1. Lustre
  2. LU-13335

add name lookup for project IDs

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    • Improvement
    • Resolution: Unresolved
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    • 9223372036854775807

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      It would be useful to allow names to be mapped to projid numbers using the /etc/projid file (projid.5), as is used by the XFS quota utility (xfs_quota.8):

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      There should be a new function struct ll_project *llapi_getprjname(const char *name) function that is called by lfs and lctl to read the /etc/projid file and lookup the name and return the projid, while struct ll_project *llapi_getprjid(__u32 prjid) would lookup the numeric project ID and return the name:

      struct ll_project {
              __u32 lp_projid;
              char *lp_name;
      };
      

      Returning the struct instead of a single value (name or prjid) allows expanding this interface in the future (e.g. to list which users are allowed to use/change the group, passwords for the group, etc. as with getgrnam(), getgrgid(), getpwnam(), getpwuid()).

      It isn't very clear what benefit the /etc/projects file (projects.5) provides, so I'm not yet sure whether we need to implement support for this or not.

      This should be available for use by lfs project -p, lfs find -projid, lfs quota -p, lfs setquota -p.

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              fdilger Fred Dilger
              adilger Andreas Dilger
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