Hi Trond, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The NFS idmapper has two key types (normal and legacy) but should only use one > if it can - otherwise it risks having twice as many keys as it would otherwise > need. > > Get rid of the legacy key type and have the normal key type have a > .request_key() op. The choice of which instantiation method is then made by > the upcaller, in order: > > (1) If there's no auxdata, the normal method is called, invoking > /sbin/request-key. > > (2) If there's something attached to the idmapper pipe (rpc.idmapd) then use > that. > > (3) Fall back to (1). > > Note that this does change the prioritisation of normal vs legacy if both are > available. I'm not sure whether this will be a problem, so it needs careful consideration. David -- 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
