Yes, many bad ideas are possible to implement. At least temporarily. Until the next cleanup process figures out how to remove cadvisor dir regardless of file contents. Or the next OS release turns /tmp into a ram disk. Or… or… or…
Yes, it’s a fun academic exercise to think through possible mitigations. And in the end, it will still be dumb to keep this in /tmp
Why wouldn’t changing to permissions keep the file from being deleted by the internal process?
That’s like keeping your lunch laying outside on the sidewalk, getting stepped on by people and destroyed, and then wondering if your lunch would be safer if you put it in a stronger bag (but still left it on the sidewalk).
Don’t leave your lunch outside laying on the sidewalk, regardless of what you might do to “protect” it. Don’t keep important files in /tmp
GlusterFS is (was) really cool, but I would not set up a new instance. It used to have significant support and development from RedHat, but they decided to halt their work on it, and focus on Ceph.
GlusterFS is getting a few slow updates from some alternate developers, but I would only count on that being fixes for current installations.