On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Myklebust, Trond wrote: > > -----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... And I *do* want to get back to that, I just haven't had the time. (Patches welcome if someone else is motivated.) --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
