On 08/17/2010 03:51 PM, Tom Haynes wrote: > Steve Dickson wrote: >> In recent NFS v2/v3 to v4 transitions, one of the sticking points have been that fact v4 uses strings in the format >> of "user@domain" instead of 32bit integers for uids and gids. >> >> When the string can not be mapped, its mapped to the 'nobody' >> user which is not optimal for things like backup servers and >> such where the ids will not be know by both sides. >> >> So this patch series enables the server to send out numeric string of uids and gids that do not have the '@domain' part. >> The series also adds functionality to the client that parse these >> type of strings and will use the numeric representation >> of the ids iff the id exists on the client, which is sightly different that Solaris. Solaris dose not have that >> "id must exist" restriction. >> > > No, Solaris does have that restriction. I thought so too.... but when I had an Open Solaris client access an directory, on a Linux server, that was owned by a user that was non-existent on either the server or client, I got the numeric representation as the owner.... Basically: osol# mount Linux-server:/home /mnt/home osol# ls -ld /mnt/home/noid drwxr-xr-x+ 2 111 111 4096 Aug 17 11:37 /mnt/home/noid/ osol# grep 111 /etc/passwd osol# steved. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
