On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> We are not taking the concept of this user/group away. We are also not
> taking the UID/GID assignment 65534 away, either. All we are doing is
> assigning it a better name and do so unconditionally, independently of
> whether nfsutils is installed or not, as the UID/GID 65534 has plenty
> uses outside of NFS.
fixing something well and extensively documented, to something
'new and improved' in the face of a huge and unchangeable set
of implementations (and third-party webbish documentation)
that cannot be changed:
RO media
off-line images
backups
iscsi targets
NFS exports from third-party appliances
interop in hetergoneous environments
SMB
... is this really worth the effort? All it does, like the
XKCD 'N+1 standards' cartoon, is add one more 'standard' that
cannot displace the incumbents and diverges from 'Unix' for
an, at best, cosmetic reason, as you state:
All we are doing is assigning it a better name ...
-- Russ herrold
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