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author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200 |
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committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200 |
commit | e75d660672ddd11704b7f0fdb8ff21968587b266 (patch) | |
tree | ccb9c107744c10b553c0373e450bee3971d16c00 /Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt | |
parent | 61282f37927143e45b03153f3e7b48d6b702147a (diff) | |
parent | 0034102808e0dbbf3a2394b82b1bb40b5778de9e (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Merge with latest Linus' tree, as I have incoming patches
that fix code that is newer than current HEAD of for-next.
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt index 120fd3cf7fd..fe03d10bb79 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt @@ -4,13 +4,21 @@ ID Mapper ========= Id mapper is used by NFS to translate user and group ids into names, and to translate user and group names into ids. Part of this translation involves -performing an upcall to userspace to request the information. Id mapper will -user request-key to perform this upcall and cache the result. The program -/usr/sbin/nfs.idmap should be called by request-key, and will perform the -translation and initialize a key with the resulting information. +performing an upcall to userspace to request the information. There are two +ways NFS could obtain this information: placing a call to /sbin/request-key +or by placing a call to the rpc.idmap daemon. + +NFS will attempt to call /sbin/request-key first. If this succeeds, the +result will be cached using the generic request-key cache. This call should +only fail if /etc/request-key.conf is not configured for the id_resolver key +type, see the "Configuring" section below if you wish to use the request-key +method. + +If the call to /sbin/request-key fails (if /etc/request-key.conf is not +configured with the id_resolver key type), then the idmapper will ask the +legacy rpc.idmap daemon for the id mapping. This result will be stored +in a custom NFS idmap cache. - NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER must be selected when configuring the kernel to use this - feature. =========== Configuring |