From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Enable the in-kernel id mapping to be on by default.
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:32:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBC42F4.7080407@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320958342.11956.22.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
On 11/10/2011 03:52 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 15:26 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> This patch set enables the in-kernel id mapping upcall
>> mechanism, which will fix deadlocks that can occur
>> between the rpc.idmapd daemon and the kernel.
>
> Which deadlocks are you thinking of?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730045
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751992
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609252
>
>> This set also correct the binary name in the kernel
>> documentation
>
> Note that we should also at some point change the default value of the
> nfs4_disable_idmapping module parameter. Setting it to 'Y' so that the
> NFS client starts by trying to use numeric u/gids with 'sec=sys' should
> be safe, since we automatically fall back to using string-based
> owner/group names if the server rejects numeric values.
I guess I could look into doing this...
>
> Also note that older Linux servers return NFS4ERR_BADNAME in cases where
> they should be using NFS4ERR_BADOWNER: please can distribution
> maintainers make sure that they have applied commit
> f6af99ec1b261e21219d5eba99e3af48fc6c32d4 (nfsd4: name->id mapping should
> fail with BADOWNER not BADNAME).
Dully noted....
steved.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-10 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-10 20:26 [PATCH 0/2] Enable the in-kernel id mapping to be on by default Steve Dickson
2011-11-10 20:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] Enable the in-kernel ID mapping upcall mechanism Steve Dickson
2011-11-10 20:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] idmapper.txt: Fix the upcall binary name Steve Dickson
2011-11-10 20:42 ` Bryan Schumaker
2011-11-10 20:52 ` [PATCH 0/2] Enable the in-kernel id mapping to be on by default Trond Myklebust
2011-11-10 21:32 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
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