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| author |   Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com> | 2012-01-26 16:54:25 -0500 |
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| committer |   Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2012-02-06 18:48:01 -0500 |
| commit | a602bea3e7ccc5ce3da61d2c18245c4058983926 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a8ff57d6c86111df6713fe2c567c6888efd35aa /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | NFS: Keep idmapper include files in one place (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-a602bea3e7ccc5ce3da61d2c18245c4058983926.tar.xz linux-dev-a602bea3e7ccc5ce3da61d2c18245c4058983926.zip | |
NFS: Update idmapper documentation
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt index 120fd3cf7fd9..fe03d10bb79a 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 |