Hi, as you probably know, request_key() imposes a quota on the number of keys that can be requested, which by default is quite low (200). When idmap exceeds this quota, request_key() returns an error and the result is userspace sees "nobody" as the owner. A short term fix is to fiddle some sysctl values, but I wonder if any long term fix is being planned. Probably the sensible thing would be for nfs-idmap to bypass the quota. As keys are not held active for very long at a time, they should be garbage collected in due course. There is currently no interface to request this but I suspect one could be added. (I want to fixed this for openSUSE-13.1, and don't want to diverge too far from mainline). Thanks, NeilBrown
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