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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Thomas Haynes <thomas@netapp.com>
Cc: Spencer Shepler <spencer.shepler@gmail.com>,
	"'Trond Myklebust'" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	"'Spelic'" <spelic@shiftmail.org>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFSv4 behaviour on unknown users
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:17:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101210191758.GD5014@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FD238C0-0A97-4EEE-ACE6-A0547E2559AF@netapp.com>

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:00:08AM -0800, Thomas Haynes wrote:
> 
> On Dec 7, 2010, at 4:15 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 
> > 
> > (I see AUTH_SYS as a different issue.  It's unfortunately true that
> > AUTH_SYS has effectively turned out to be required-to-implement even if
> > it wasn't meant to be, so maybe the spec's out of line with reality
> > there; but I haven't heard of that causing any practical
> > problems--whereas "why does ls show all users as nobody after an upgrade
> > to NFSv4" is a FAQ.)
> 
> If everyone were to adopt this approach to solve the FAQ, then wouldn't we
> want it to be specified to make sure that interoperability was maximized?

Sorry for the confusion--that last paragraph was just about AUTH_SYS,
not about user/group-naming.

Sure, I'd be happy to propose changes to the user/group-naming (which is
all in section 5.8 of 3530, I think, or is there some scattered
elsewhere?)

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-10 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-29 18:12 NFSv4 behaviour on unknown users Spelic
2010-11-29 18:22 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-11-29 18:38   ` Spelic
2010-11-29 19:01     ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-11-29 19:09       ` Trond Myklebust
2010-11-30 15:36         ` Steve Dickson
2010-11-30 22:19           ` Trond Myklebust
2010-11-30 22:26             ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-11-30 22:33               ` Trond Myklebust
2010-11-30 22:36                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-11-30 22:47                   ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01  2:57                   ` Neil Brown
2010-12-01  3:10                     ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01  3:23                       ` Neil Brown
2010-12-01 16:29                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-02 23:10                         ` Thomas Haynes
2010-12-02 23:18                           ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-02 23:28                             ` Spencer Shepler
2010-12-08  0:15                               ` 'J. Bruce Fields'
2010-12-10 19:00                                 ` Thomas Haynes
2010-12-10 19:17                                   ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2010-11-29 22:09   ` Daniel.Muntz
2010-11-29 22:57     ` Spencer Shepler
2010-11-29 23:16       ` Trond Myklebust
2010-11-29 23:25         ` Spencer Shepler
2010-11-29 23:26         ` Trond Myklebust
2010-11-29 23:30           ` Spencer Shepler
2010-11-29 23:40             ` Trond Myklebust
2010-11-30  0:02               ` Spencer Shepler
2010-11-30 11:44                 ` Spelic
2010-11-30 13:04                   ` Trond Myklebust
2010-11-30 15:48                     ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-11-29 23:34       ` Daniel.Muntz
2010-11-29 23:36         ` Spencer Shepler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-29 17:32 Spelic
2010-11-29 19:50 ` Simon Kirby
2010-11-29 22:47   ` Spelic
2010-11-30 15:20     ` Chuck Lever

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