On Monday 09 January 2012, Trond Myklebust wrote: > Hi Linus, > > Please pull from the "nfs-for-3.3" branch of the repository at > > git pull git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs.git nfs- for-3.3 > > This will update the following files through the appended changesets. > > Cheers, > Trond > > > commit 074b1d12fe2500d7d453902f9266e6674b30d84c > Author: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon Jan 9 13:46:26 2012 -0500 > > NFSv4: Change the default setting of the nfs4_disable_idmapping parameter > > Now that the use of numeric uids/gids is officially sanctioned in > RFC3530bis, it is time to change the default here to 'enabled'. > > By doing so, we ensure that NFSv4 copies the behaviour of NFSv3 when we're > using the default AUTH_SYS authentication (i.e. when the client uses the > numeric uids/gids as authentication tokens), so that when new files are > created, they will appear to have the correct user/group. > It also fixes a number of backward compatibility issues when migrating > from NFSv3 to NFSv4 on a platform where the server uses different uid/gid > mappings than the client. > > Note also that this setting has been successfully tested against servers > that do not support numeric uids/gids at several Connectathon/Bakeathon > events at this point, and the fall back to using string names/groups has > been shown to work well in all those test cases. > > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> > Does this mean that one has to modify all one's clients to get the old behaviour? I'm not sure if this is a really good idea. I don't see the advantage. This will break a lot of existing installations when upgrading to >=3.3. And someone migrating from NFSv3 to NFSv4 has to give some thoughts to it anyway. Regards, -- Wolfgang Walter Studentenwerk München Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts -- 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
