Re: [Gluster-users] Why is Gluster 3.4+ limited to 32 groups when Gluster 3.0 was not?

2015-02-02 Thread Anand Avati
Hi Barry! Your observation is right. Sometime after 3.0 (not sure which exact version, probably 3.1) Gluster introduced POSIX acl support (on the server side). Until then, if fuse let a request through into Gluster, server assumed request to be authenticated - however fuse does not support POSIX a

[Gluster-users] Why is Gluster 3.4+ limited to 32 groups when Gluster 3.0 was not?

2015-02-02 Thread Barry Jaspan
A discussion thread on this list from last May 2014, http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users.old/2014-May/017283.html, discussed how Gluster is limited to 32 groups, due to FUSE, or maybe to 96 groups, due to the AUTH header size in the RPC library being used, unless the administrator enable