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From: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>
To: Stephan Henningsen <sth@amplex.dk>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Trouble accessing NFS mountpoint as user
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 22:00:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070104210041.GA15676@janus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <459CD54E.9050107@amplex.dk>

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:22:06AM +0100, Stephan Henningsen wrote:
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > NFS will only support a maximum of 16 supplemental groups. That is a
> > protocol limitation, not a Linux implementation issue.
> 
> I just did "chgrp dialout /var/files" on the server, changing to one of the 
> first 16 supplemental groups, and now it works.  Thank you very much for 
> solving this mystery!
> 
>  > See for instance
> > http://nfsworld.blogspot.com/2005/03/whats-deal-on-16-group-id-limitation.html 
> > if you want a more complete explanation of why this is the case.
> 
> This suggests moving from NFS3 to NFS4.  Is that an easy task?  Mount as 
> "nfs4" instead of "nfs" and compile the kernel nfs server to support nfs4?

There's an alternative: See http://www.frankvm.com/nfs-ngroups/ for a
patch to get rid of the 16 groups limit on linux NFS2/NFS3 clients without
breaking the protocol.

-- 
Frank

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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-04  8:23 Trouble accessing NFS mountpoint as user Stephan Henningsen
2007-01-04  9:09 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-04 10:22   ` Stephan Henningsen
2007-01-04 21:00     ` Frank van Maarseveen [this message]
2007-01-05  6:56       ` Stephan Henningsen

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