On 11/29/2010 08:50 PM, Simon Kirby wrote:
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I tried to write the NFSv4 spec people, but didn't get any reply. I can
see maybe why they would want to do this by default, but it's not like
people don't already have years of experience with how NFSv3 and earlier
worked, and I still think should at least be a way to request that
behaviour.
Yeah!!!
currently it sucks... er...
I don't understand... never before I came across a "new version" of a
software or a protocol which allows to do many fewer things than the
older version. This sucks. Lots of use cases for NFS here are totally lost.
I'm thinking that even if I'd setup LDAP for everything here, things
would not be easy, because we have server1 which has certain users and
groups, server2+server3 which are for a different project and have
different users and groups etc... and now we need to have the NFS server
understand all those sets of users simultaneously, but the various
servers only need to understand theirs and the other people should not
be able to log in!
Maybe it's possible (I don't know how), but looks like a major headache.
And now we probably cannot even have more than one LDAP server any
longer: all LDAP probably needs to be centralized on a single machine
which is where the NFS server(s) authenticate... it looks like a real
problem for the independence of projects... and I really fear to think
of what will happen if that machine fails!
I'd be glad to go back to NFS version 3 but we need nfs on infiniband
rdma now, and afaik it's only available in version 4.
If it's still possible to change the specs or break them, well... you
sure have my vote!
Thank you
S.
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