20 This filesystem provides a fairly simple secure AFS filesystem driver. It is
21 under development and does not yet provide the full feature set. The features
22 it does support include:
24 (*) Security (currently only AFS kaserver and KerberosIV tickets).
26 (*) File reading and writing.
30 (*) Local caching (via fscache).
32 It does not yet support the following AFS features:
34 (*) pioctl() system call.
41 The filesystem should be enabled by turning on the kernel configuration
44 CONFIG_AF_RXRPC - The RxRPC protocol transport
45 CONFIG_RXKAD - The RxRPC Kerberos security handler
46 CONFIG_AFS - The AFS filesystem
48 Additionally, the following can be turned on to aid debugging:
50 CONFIG_AF_RXRPC_DEBUG - Permit AF_RXRPC debugging to be enabled
51 CONFIG_AFS_DEBUG - Permit AFS debugging to be enabled
53 They permit the debugging messages to be turned on dynamically by manipulating
54 the masks in the following files:
56 /sys/module/af_rxrpc/parameters/debug
57 /sys/module/kafs/parameters/debug
64 When inserting the driver modules the root cell must be specified along with a
65 list of volume location server IP addresses:
68 modprobe kafs rootcell=cambridge.redhat.com:172.16.18.73:172.16.18.91
70 The first module is the AF_RXRPC network protocol driver. This provides the
71 RxRPC remote operation protocol and may also be accessed from userspace. See:
73 Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt
75 The second module is the kerberos RxRPC security driver, and the third module
76 is the actual filesystem driver for the AFS filesystem.
78 Once the module has been loaded, more modules can be added by the following
81 echo add grand.central.org 18.9.48.14:128.2.203.61:130.237.48.87 >/proc/fs/afs/cells
83 Where the parameters to the "add" command are the name of a cell and a list of
84 volume location servers within that cell, with the latter separated by colons.
86 Filesystems can be mounted anywhere by commands similar to the following:
88 mount -t afs "%cambridge.redhat.com:root.afs." /afs
89 mount -t afs "#cambridge.redhat.com:root.cell." /afs/cambridge
90 mount -t afs "#root.afs." /afs
91 mount -t afs "#root.cell." /afs/cambridge
93 Where the initial character is either a hash or a percent symbol depending on
94 whether you definitely want a R/W volume (hash) or whether you'd prefer a R/O
95 volume, but are willing to use a R/W volume instead (percent).
97 The name of the volume can be suffixes with ".backup" or ".readonly" to
98 specify connection to only volumes of those types.
100 The name of the cell is optional, and if not given during a mount, then the
101 named volume will be looked up in the cell specified during modprobe.
103 Additional cells can be added through /proc (see later section).
110 AFS has a concept of mountpoints. In AFS terms, these are specially formatted
111 symbolic links (of the same form as the "device name" passed to mount). kAFS
112 presents these to the user as directories that have a follow-link capability
113 (ie: symbolic link semantics). If anyone attempts to access them, they will
114 automatically cause the target volume to be mounted (if possible) on that site.
116 Automatically mounted filesystems will be automatically unmounted approximately
117 twenty minutes after they were last used. Alternatively they can be unmounted
118 directly with the umount() system call.
120 Manually unmounting an AFS volume will cause any idle submounts upon it to be
121 culled first. If all are culled, then the requested volume will also be
122 unmounted, otherwise error EBUSY will be returned.
124 This can be used by the administrator to attempt to unmount the whole AFS tree
125 mounted on /afs in one go by doing:
134 The AFS modules creates a "/proc/fs/afs/" directory and populates it:
136 (*) A "cells" file that lists cells currently known to the afs module and
139 [root@andromeda ~]# cat /proc/fs/afs/cells
141 3 cambridge.redhat.com
143 (*) A directory per cell that contains files that list volume location
144 servers, volumes, and active servers known within that cell.
146 [root@andromeda ~]# cat /proc/fs/afs/cambridge.redhat.com/servers
149 [root@andromeda ~]# cat /proc/fs/afs/cambridge.redhat.com/vlservers
152 [root@andromeda ~]# cat /proc/fs/afs/cambridge.redhat.com/volumes
153 USE STT VLID[0] VLID[1] VLID[2] NAME
154 1 Val 20000000 20000001 20000002 root.afs
161 The filesystem maintains an internal database of all the cells it knows and the
162 IP addresses of the volume location servers for those cells. The cell to which
163 the system belongs is added to the database when modprobe is performed by the
164 "rootcell=" argument or, if compiled in, using a "kafs.rootcell=" argument on
165 the kernel command line.
167 Further cells can be added by commands similar to the following:
169 echo add CELLNAME VLADDR[:VLADDR][:VLADDR]... >/proc/fs/afs/cells
170 echo add grand.central.org 18.9.48.14:128.2.203.61:130.237.48.87 >/proc/fs/afs/cells
172 No other cell database operations are available at this time.
179 Secure operations are initiated by acquiring a key using the klog program. A
180 very primitive klog program is available at:
182 http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/klog.c
184 This should be compiled by:
186 make klog LDLIBS="-lcrypto -lcrypt -lkrb4 -lkeyutils"
192 Assuming it's successful, this adds a key of type RxRPC, named for the service
193 and cell, eg: "afs@<cellname>". This can be viewed with the keyctl program or
194 by cat'ing /proc/keys:
196 [root@andromeda ~]# keyctl show
198 -3 --alswrv 0 0 keyring: _ses.3268
199 2 --alswrv 0 0 \_ keyring: _uid.0
200 111416553 --als--v 0 0 \_ rxrpc: afs@CAMBRIDGE.REDHAT.COM
202 Currently the username, realm, password and proposed ticket lifetime are
203 compiled in to the program.
205 It is not required to acquire a key before using AFS facilities, but if one is
206 not acquired then all operations will be governed by the anonymous user parts
209 If a key is acquired, then all AFS operations, including mounts and automounts,
210 made by a possessor of that key will be secured with that key.
212 If a file is opened with a particular key and then the file descriptor is
213 passed to a process that doesn't have that key (perhaps over an AF_UNIX
214 socket), then the operations on the file will be made with key that was used to