Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client bugfixes and cleanups

[Wolfgang Walter <wolfgang.walter@stwm.de>]

On Monday 09 January 2012, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Hi Linus,
> 
> Please pull from the "nfs-for-3.3" branch of the repository at
> 
>    git pull git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs.git nfs-
for-3.3
> 
> This will update the following files through the appended changesets.
> 
>   Cheers,
>     Trond
> 
> 
> commit 074b1d12fe2500d7d453902f9266e6674b30d84c
> Author: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
> Date:   Mon Jan 9 13:46:26 2012 -0500
> 
>     NFSv4: Change the default setting of the nfs4_disable_idmapping 
parameter
>     
>     Now that the use of numeric uids/gids is officially sanctioned in
>     RFC3530bis, it is time to change the default here to 'enabled'.
>     
>     By doing so, we ensure that NFSv4 copies the behaviour of NFSv3 when 
we're
>     using the default AUTH_SYS authentication (i.e. when the client uses the
>     numeric uids/gids as authentication tokens), so that when new files are
>     created, they will appear to have the correct user/group.
>     It also fixes a number of backward compatibility issues when migrating
>     from NFSv3 to NFSv4 on a platform where the server uses different 
uid/gid
>     mappings than the client.
>     
>     Note also that this setting has been successfully tested against servers
>     that do not support numeric uids/gids at several Connectathon/Bakeathon
>     events at this point, and the fall back to using string names/groups has
>     been shown to work well in all those test cases.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
> 


Does this mean that one has to modify all one's clients to get the old 
behaviour?

I'm not sure if this is a really good idea. I don't see the advantage. This 
will break a lot of existing installations when upgrading to >=3.3. And 
someone migrating from NFSv3 to NFSv4 has to give some thoughts to it anyway.


Regards,
-- 
Wolfgang Walter
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