summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt
AgeCommit message (Collapse)Author
2010-10-26NFS: rename nfs.upcall -> nfs.idmapBryan Schumaker
This patch renames the idmapper upcall program from nfs.upcall to nfs.idmap in the NFS documentation. This is because the program has been renamed in the nfs-utils source. Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-10-07NFS: new idmapperBryan Schumaker
This patch creates a new idmapper system that uses the request-key function to place a call into userspace to map user and group ids to names. The old idmapper was single threaded, which prevented more than one request from running at a single time. This means that a user would have to wait for an upcall to finish before accessing a cached result. The upcall result is stored on a keyring of type id_resolver. See the file Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt for instructions. Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com> [Trond: fix up the return value of nfs_idmap_lookup_name and clean up code] Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>