Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:43:34 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Knowledge Seeker <knoseeker@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RPC and NFS more than 16 groups Message-ID: <20100427214334.GA69365@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <h2wb5ec32921004271403pdea6a0er89bc43e97fd73401@mail.gmail.com> References: <t2nb5ec32921004131600q5cbfad0uee7fc35103f7e115@mail.gmail.com> <20100414023414.GD81708@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <h2wb5ec32921004271403pdea6a0er89bc43e97fd73401@mail.gmail.com>
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--liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:03:36PM +0000, Knowledge Seeker wrote: > Hi, > I made the changes in 2 FreeBSD 8.0 stable boxes. One I've configured one= as > a server and the other as the client. > But the 16 groups limit persists. > Even when I tried using a GNU/Linux Debian machine as a client with a Ker= nel > patched to work with the number of groups advertised by the server > (kernel-patch-nfs-ngroups), it does not work. >=20 >=20 > The files and lines changed in FreeBSD src were: >=20 > include/rpc/auth_unix.h:#define NGRPS 64 > lib/libc/rpc/PSD.doc/xdr.nts.ms:#define NGRPS 64 > lib/libc/rpc/PSD.doc/xdr.nts.ms:#define NGRPS 64 > sys/rpc/authunix_prot.c:#define NGRPS 64 > sys/rpc/svc_auth_unix.c:#define NGRPS 64 >=20 > I wish to do that as a temporary solution, once we intend to do a complete > migration to OpenAFS soon. > But now, It's really important to have this working. > Migrate to NFSv4 first, will be too much work, especially on clients. (On= ly > the server is a FreeBSD machine) Realistically you're going to have to dig through the code and find all the hidden hard codings of 16. I don't know of any exisitng patches. -- Brooks --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFL11qFXY6L6fI4GtQRAsBSAJ9MwzcB/YVqI3cuCBgPpYWzr6qiBACeN+Ym rJrD/WfOm2N3gHcCd4Z3oh0= =ehR8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr--
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