On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 16:53 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Does the idmapper do the right thing for numeric ids these days? If the
> older clients are running a newer idmapper that can deal with numeric
> ids, then even the legacy clients should be able to work cleanly.
If this isn't the case, then the older clients are broken anyway. The
server has always had the option of returning numeric ids if it has no
mapping from a uid/gid into an owner/group string.
IOW: the only difference between older and newer clients should really
be that the newer ones handle numeric strings more efficiently without
requiring an upcall, and that the newer clients will also try to _send_
numeric ids in SETATTR calls.
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer
NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx
www.netapp.com
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