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scoutfs cli commands were using a helper that tried to perform word expansion on the path argument. This was done with the intent of providing the convenience of shell expansion (env vars, ~) within the cli command argument. But it breaks paths that accidentally have their file names match the syntax that wordexp supports. "[ ]" tripped up files in the wild. We don't need to provide shell expansion functionality in our argument parsing. The shell can do that. The cli must pass the arguments straight through, no parsing at all. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@versity.com>
Introduction
scoutfs is a clustered in-kernel Linux filesystem designed to support large archival systems. It features additional interfaces and metadata so that archive agents can perform their maintenance workflows without walking all the files in the namespace. Its cluster support lets deployments add nodes to satisfy archival tier bandwidth targets.
The design goal is to reach file populations in the trillions, with the archival bandwidth to match, while remaining operational and responsive.
Highlights of the design and implementation include:
- Fully consistent POSIX semantics between nodes
- Atomic transactions to maintain consistent persistent structures
- Integrated archival metadata replaces syncing to external databases
- Dynamic seperation of resources lets nodes write in parallel
- 64bit throughout; no limits on file or directory sizes or counts
- Open GPLv2 implementation
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