On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 10:02:59AM +0200, Finney, Sean wrote: > Hi There! > > Last week I fired off a couple patches to this list and in hindsight I > realize that I might not have been totally clear for the motivation > behind the patches: > > [PATCH] Use a named constant for max number of managed groups, and inc > [PATCH] Increase the default buffer size for cachelist channel files. I can't find those; could you resend? --b. > > Since nobody has reviewed them yet, I thought I'd make it clear that > these changes (or something along such lines) are required for NFS > access to mountpoints when users are in largeish (>100) numbers of > groups. There are actually two problems: > > * Hard-coded limit for group membership at 100 groups in mountd source > * Large server-side procfs writes are split into mulitple writes due to > stdio buffering in mountd and svcgssd sources, resulting in client > hangs. > > The patches in question solve this in as non-intrusive a manner as > possible, though I'm of course open to changing things up if you feel it > should be done otherwise. So please let me know what you think, or if > it would be better for me to first go and open a bug, start a > discussion, etc. > > > Thanks, > Sean > N?????r??y????b?X??Çv?^?)Þ{.n?+????{???"??^n?r???z???h?????&???G???h?(?é?Ýj"???m??????z?Þ???f???h???~?m -- 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