On 11/10/2011 03:52 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 15:26 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: >> This patch set enables the in-kernel id mapping upcall >> mechanism, which will fix deadlocks that can occur >> between the rpc.idmapd daemon and the kernel. > > Which deadlocks are you thinking of? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730045 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751992 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609252 > >> This set also correct the binary name in the kernel >> documentation > > Note that we should also at some point change the default value of the > nfs4_disable_idmapping module parameter. Setting it to 'Y' so that the > NFS client starts by trying to use numeric u/gids with 'sec=sys' should > be safe, since we automatically fall back to using string-based > owner/group names if the server rejects numeric values. I guess I could look into doing this... > > Also note that older Linux servers return NFS4ERR_BADNAME in cases where > they should be using NFS4ERR_BADOWNER: please can distribution > maintainers make sure that they have applied commit > f6af99ec1b261e21219d5eba99e3af48fc6c32d4 (nfsd4: name->id mapping should > fail with BADOWNER not BADNAME). Dully noted.... steved. -- 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
