Re: RFC reviews for ggate and hastd

On 09/09/2021 23:33, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Johannes Totz via freebsd-geom wrote this message on Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 21:55 +0100:
>> (looks like gmane swallowed my 1st message, trying again)
>>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> any ggate or hastd users here? I've got some code reviews for you.
>> Please take a look if you get a chance:
>>
>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31727
>> Fix potential out-of-bounds read in the geom-gate kernel module.
>>
>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31722
>> Dynamically alloc buffers in ggatec, instead of assuming a fixed size on
>> the stack.
>>
>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31709
>> Simple rc script to start ggated.
> 
> I'll try to look at them.
> 
> I've broken out the ggate code to: https://www.funkthat.com/gitea/jmg/ggate

Nice, thanks!

I noticed the http branch. One weekend toy project idea I wanted to get 
around to was to write a ggated impl that talks to Backblaze.

> and have a number of fixes in that tree, one of them being having the
> server (ggated) be multi-threaded, to improve IOPs.  Another is dropping
> the setting of tcp buffer sizes to allow the dynamic buffer sizing code
> to work, allowing it to grow larger than 128kB for better perf on high
> latency links..
> 
> In another branch, I have a version that runs the client over ssh using
> sftp (requires a modified sftp-server for best performance, and security)
> allowing for better security..
> 
> The ssh branch does have an rc.d script for that.  I'll look at which one
> should be used, and adapting the man page that I've written for that one
> as well.
> 
> Thanks for the help/work!
>