From: bjschuma@netapp.com
To: bfields@fieldses.org
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] NFS: Update idmapper documentation
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:54:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1327614865-29322-3-git-send-email-bjschuma@netapp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327614865-29322-1-git-send-email-bjschuma@netapp.com>
From: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++------
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt
index 120fd3c..fe03d10 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt
@@ -4,13 +4,21 @@ ID Mapper
=========
Id mapper is used by NFS to translate user and group ids into names, and to
translate user and group names into ids. Part of this translation involves
-performing an upcall to userspace to request the information. Id mapper will
-user request-key to perform this upcall and cache the result. The program
-/usr/sbin/nfs.idmap should be called by request-key, and will perform the
-translation and initialize a key with the resulting information.
+performing an upcall to userspace to request the information. There are two
+ways NFS could obtain this information: placing a call to /sbin/request-key
+or by placing a call to the rpc.idmap daemon.
+
+NFS will attempt to call /sbin/request-key first. If this succeeds, the
+result will be cached using the generic request-key cache. This call should
+only fail if /etc/request-key.conf is not configured for the id_resolver key
+type, see the "Configuring" section below if you wish to use the request-key
+method.
+
+If the call to /sbin/request-key fails (if /etc/request-key.conf is not
+configured with the id_resolver key type), then the idmapper will ask the
+legacy rpc.idmap daemon for the id mapping. This result will be stored
+in a custom NFS idmap cache.
- NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER must be selected when configuring the kernel to use this
- feature.
===========
Configuring
--
1.7.8.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-26 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-26 21:54 [PATCH 1/3] NFS: Fall back on old idmapper if request_key() fails bjschuma
2012-01-26 21:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] NFS: Keep idmapper include files in one place bjschuma
2012-02-06 23:05 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-01-26 21:54 ` bjschuma [this message]
2012-01-26 21:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] NFS: Fall back on old idmapper if request_key() fails J. Bruce Fields
2012-01-26 21:57 ` Bryan Schumaker
2012-02-06 23:05 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-02-07 15:54 ` Bryan Schumaker
2012-02-07 19:12 ` Jeff Layton
2012-02-07 19:21 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-02-07 19:29 ` Bryan Schumaker
2012-02-07 19:44 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-02-07 20:05 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-02-08 12:04 ` Jeff Layton
2012-02-08 13:50 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-02-08 18:56 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-02-08 19:30 ` Jeff Layton
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