[lustre-discuss] uid/gid in changelog records

[Matthew Sanderson]

Hi all,

Change logs would form a more complete audit trail if they contained a 
user ID (and possibly also a primary group ID, maybe even all of the 
user's supplementary group IDs).

Is there a particular reason why this information isn't currently stored 
in changelog records?

After some investigation with my colleague (cc'd), it looks like this 
would be a comparatively easy change to make. The information is already 
sent over the wire to the MDS; it's just not persisted in the changelog.

The additional fields could be added to the userspace 'struct 
changelog_rec' as an additional extension, similar to the way renames 
and job IDs are stored. As far as I can tell, this wouldn't break 
compatibility with existing applications that consume changelogs.

Regards, Matt