Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:27742 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751179Ab0HQWZn (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:25:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4C6B0C62.4020509@RedHat.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:25:38 -0400 From: Steve Dickson To: Trond Myklebust CC: Linux NFS Mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Teach clients to map numeric strings into valid uids and gids. References: <1282073925-18707-1-git-send-email-steved@redhat.com> <1282073925-18707-2-git-send-email-steved@redhat.com> <1282076855.12506.2.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <4C6B00B1.4060206@RedHat.com> <1282081633.18385.6.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <4C6B081B.2070700@RedHat.com> <1282083199.18385.21.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> In-Reply-To: <1282083199.18385.21.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On 08/17/2010 06:13 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote: > >> But at this point in time we have people doing the v4 transitioning now and >> I can get the fix out much quicker, making their transition less painful, >> if I put these few lines of code in nfs-utils verses the library... > > I don't see why getting it into nfs-utils is faster. Is CITI being slow > taking patches for libnfsidmap? No... That is not the case WRT CITI... But please remember... as soon as you create a new interface you also create a new dependency... which means we would have to push out two packages (simultaneously, which can be painful) verses just pushing out one package... that's were the quickness comes from... steved.