Subject: Re: NFSv4 behaviour on unknown users
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From: Thomas Haynes <thomas@netapp.com>
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:00:08 -0800
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        "'Trond Myklebust'" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
        "'Spelic'" <spelic@shiftmail.org>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
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To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
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On Dec 7, 2010, at 4:15 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> 
> (I see AUTH_SYS as a different issue.  It's unfortunately true that
> AUTH_SYS has effectively turned out to be required-to-implement even if
> it wasn't meant to be, so maybe the spec's out of line with reality
> there; but I haven't heard of that causing any practical
> problems--whereas "why does ls show all users as nobody after an upgrade
> to NFSv4" is a FAQ.)
> 
> --b.


If everyone were to adopt this approach to solve the FAQ, then wouldn't we
want it to be specified to make sure that interoperability was maximized?