trafficserver and raw disk access in FreeBSD

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 23/07/2012, at 11:17, ming.zym at gmail.com wrote:
> yeah, rules in devfs always work. and it may introduce more challenge on
> operation management, is there any way that we can do it more clean?
> 
> should we set the permission for :operator g+w on disks and partitions?
> then we can put a dedicate user for trafficserver into operator group.

I would change the ownership of the disk you want to use to trafficserver.

This does mean you have double configuration (ie in devfs and ATS) but I think it's more sensible than giving operator write perms.

AFAIK operator has read access so it can run dump.

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