Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932422AbWHWL7k (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:59:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932427AbWHWL7k (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:59:40 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:61100 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932422AbWHWL7j (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:59:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:57:26 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: ray-gmail@madrabbit.org cc: Robert Szentmihalyi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Group limit for NFS exported file systems In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0608230435n1b680f11q3b19669f0bb62268@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20060823091652.235230@gmx.net> <2c0942db0608230355s74af2717g78675ea56b689fc0@mail.gmail.com> <20060823111119.203710@gmx.net> <2c0942db0608230435n1b680f11q3b19669f0bb62268@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 772 Lines: 20 > > Under 2.6 local group membership was expanded to 65536. NFS, however, > is a standard separate from Linux, and it imposes a limit of 16 groups > on the wire for the AUTH_UNIX credentials. > > If all your client systems are Linux, you can use the patch at: > http://www.frankvm.com/nfs-ngroups/ > as a work around. (Only the client systems need the patch.) If only the client needs to be patched, non-patched and/or non-Linux clients and the server (linux or not) should have a problem, should they? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/