On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 03:38:43PM -0400, 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. Why did you decide to impose that restriction? --b. -- 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
