Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:20:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> To: Norbert Aschendorff <norbert.aschendorff@yahoo.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with Linux >= 3.3 as NFSv4 server Message-ID: <707224415.989556.1345674035874.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: <5034D680.3060708@yahoo.de>
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Norbert Aschendorff wrote: > Sorry, I was wrong :|. This time, the packets contain the numeric user > and group IDs (in my case, 1000:1000). A pcap file with some NFS > requests and responses can be found here: > http://lbo.spheniscida.de/Files/nfs.pcap -- sorry for that > misinformation in the previous mail :( > Ah, ok. Here's my version of the "numeric uid string" story for NFSv4. During early testing, this was done, since none of the implementations had the uid<->name mapping capability (rpc.imapd for Linux, nfsused for FreeBSD). It was not allowed by RFC3530 for NFSv4.0. Recently, there has been a push to allow this again, since it makes implementing a NFSv4 root mount much easier. (When booting an NFSv4 mounted root, the userland daemon can't be running, so either some mappings have to be hardwired or the numeric uid/gid put in the string.) I'm not sure if the draft of rfc3530bis (the updated NFSv4.0 spec that isn't yet an RFC) stands on this, but I suspect adding support for this in the FreeBSD client will come soon, at least for NFSv4.1. Summary: Although it isn't allowed by RFC3530, numeric uid/gids in the string on the wire probably will be allowed soon. --> It could be argued that the new Linux kernel supports the new draft of rfc3530bis and that this is not a bug. I will cobble together a patch for this for the FreeBSD client soon. (I think most of the code might still be there, but disabled.) It will probably "understand" the numeric strings on the receive side and only send them when nfsuserd isn't running. I'll post to freebsd-fs@ (and try to remember to cc you) when I have such a patch available for testing, rick > Norbert > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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