> -----Original Message----- > From: Chuck Lever [mailto:chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 10:02 AM > To: Jim Rees > Cc: Lukas Razik; Myklebust, Trond; Linux NFS Mailing List > Subject: Re: [BUG?] Maybe NFS bug since 2.6.37 on SPARC64 > > > On Nov 4, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Jim Rees wrote: > > As we move toward nfs4 someone will have to give some thought to > nfsroot. > > It's hard to imagine we could put enough nfs4 cruft into the kernel > > (gssd, > > idmapd) to make it work. > > A kernel-level basic id mapper is being considered. That would allow NFSv4 > with AUTH_SYS, if we can get the NIC problems squared away. We already have a solution for NFSv4 and nfsroot: use auth_sys and set the nfs4_disable_idmapping flag. That does require an rfc3530-bis compatible server, but it shouldn't be long before we see those appearing in the wild... Trond -- 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
