From: Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml@conversis.de>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bind mounts, crossmnt and multi client nfsv3
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:43:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D88DFC1.10400@conversis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D87A135.6090309@conversis.de>
On 03/21/2011 08:04 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
[SNIP]
> I'd be interested to move on to v4 but from what I've heard the
> user-mapping no longer is done using the uid. Since the users don't have
> entries in /etc/passwd and exist purely as id's in the filesystem the
> username based mapping in nfsv4 doesn't allow me to use it in this case.
> I guess the only way to accomplish that would be to write a custom
> rpcidmapd daemon?
>
> I'm currently downloading the openfiler installer so I can replicate the
> setup here for better testing. Maybe updating the nfs-utils package to a
> more current version will have an impact.
Apparently I need to export both the /exports directory and all the letter
directories beneath it for the crossmnt option to work, e.g.:
/exports 192.168...
/exports/country/de/a 192.168...
/exports/country/de/b 192.168...
/exports/country/de/c 192.168...
etc.
Regards,
Dennis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-22 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-21 2:24 bind mounts, crossmnt and multi client nfsv3 Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
2011-03-21 3:09 ` NeilBrown
2011-03-21 12:27 ` Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
2011-03-21 17:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-03-21 17:53 ` Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
2011-03-21 18:19 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-03-21 19:04 ` Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
2011-03-22 17:43 ` Dennis Jacobfeuerborn [this message]
2011-03-22 17:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
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