On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 09:01:12PM +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote: > 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. Hm, yes, but I was worried that the id<->name mapping might just be different on the two sides--but if that's so, and they were using auth_sys, then they likely already had problems. So, maybe we could default this to on. If that's the case then I'd rather not bother making this per export: just an option to get the server back to its previous behavior would seem enough. --b. > 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. > > -- > Trond Myklebust > Linux NFS client maintainer > > NetApp > Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx > www.netapp.com > -- 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
