On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 04:47:05PM -0400, bfields wrote: > By the way, I finally got around to looking at the server side. > > We don't have any way to negotiate with the client--we don't get an > error back if the name we return in a getattr reply isn't one the client > likes--so I don't think I can default the new behavior to "on" without > breaking existing setups. But we should still be able to make this effectively the default on new server installations: maybe: - Have the new module parameter be set based on a new "ServerNumericMapping" variable in idmapd.conf defaults to off. - Set it to "on" in the example idmapd.conf we distribute upstream, and encourage distributions to do the same in the idmapd.conf they install by default. --b. > > Other than that I think I'll just copy the client, module parameter and > all. That allows us to do the numeric case in-kernel and avoid > polluting our mapping cache with lots of "obvious" 123<->"123" mappings. -- 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
