Hi David,

thanks for the link, I understand the problem now.

I don't think this can be solved within ceph alone in a good way. There are 
other storage system that also use file system meta objects like .snap dirs and 
automatic xattribs for administrative purposes. All these are non-copy objects 
(dirs and attribs) and it almost sounds like this should become an extension of 
the respective APIs rather than workarounds on the storage system level.

For example, it would also be nice if the .snap dirs (containing actual snaps) 
were discoverable directly on a file system with a tool like find but protected 
from copy. The MDS now has functions for showing such info, but holding a 
parallel data structure somewhere else than the mount point looks more like a 
workaround than an elegant integration and requires cluster admin access to 
answer a rather simple question a non-privileged user could answer herself.

In the mean time, my attempt of a complete list:

ceph.dir.entries
ceph.dir.files
ceph.dir.rbytes
ceph.dir.rctime
ceph.dir.rentries
ceph.dir.rfiles
ceph.dir.rsubdirs
ceph.dir.subdirs

ceph.dir.layout
ceph.file.layout

ceph.quota.max_bytes
ceph.quota.max_files

Best regards,

=================
Frank Schilder
AIT Risø Campus
Bygning 109, rum S14

________________________________________
From: David Disseldorp <dd...@suse.de>
Sent: 10 December 2019 15:55:07
To: Frank Schilder
Cc: Yan, Zheng; ceph-users
Subject: ORe: [ceph-users] Re: getfattr problem on ceph-fs

Hi,

On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:40:35 +0000, Frank Schilder wrote:

> Thanks for the fast answer!
>
> Is there any (other) way to get a complete list of extended attributes?

Not at the moment, as far as I can tell.

> Is there something documented - meaning what can I rely on in the future?

When the listxattr() entries were removed, Greg proposed that we could
add a "ceph" namespaced xattr to provide discoverability:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/ceph-devel/msg46220.html

Somebody just needs to do the work to implement this :-)

Cheers, David
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