On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Scott Mayhew <smayhew@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is this something that is expected to work? It pretty much deadlocks > during boot. I took a vmcore... the oldest RPC task (and the one that > had the RPC transport locked) was a SETATTR that was waiting on an id > mapper upcall, and the first task in the sending RPC wait queue was the > OPEN of the /sbin/request-key program. > > If I disable id mapping on the NFS server then it looks like it works... > Yes, that is 100% expected behaviour. You get circular behaviour if you try to use idmapped identities when starting the idmapper. :-) In fact, if you look in the commit logs, you'll find that enabling rootless NFSv4 was one of the justifications for adding the AUTH_SYS non-idmapped mode on the client. Cheers Trond -- 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