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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Steve French <smfrench@austin.rr.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: filesystem client mapping of uid_t/gid_t field in lookup
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 12:38:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050514113857.GA19653@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1116052679.13863.38.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> In NFSv4 (which is the only NFS implementation that supports native
> uid/gid mapping since it defines a globally unique username/groupname
> space for use on the wire) the uid/gid mapping is done using upcalls to
> a userland daemon on both the client and server side. A cache is used in
> order to avoid too many upcalls. Why would this sort of approach be
> impractical for CIFS?

It would be even nicer if they could share the same mapping daemon.

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-14 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-13 22:50 filesystem client mapping of uid_t/gid_t field in lookup Steve French
2005-05-14  6:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-05-14 11:38   ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2005-05-15 22:37   ` Steve French
2005-05-16 18:18   ` Bryan Henderson
2005-05-16 19:03     ` Spencer Shepler
2005-05-16 22:23     ` Trond Myklebust

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