Return-Path: Received: from mail4.conversis.de ([213.203.219.181]:41985 "EHLO mail4.conversis.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751615Ab1CVRnc (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:43:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4D88DFC1.10400@conversis.de> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:43:29 +0100 From: Dennis Jacobfeuerborn To: "J. Bruce Fields" CC: NeilBrown , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bind mounts, crossmnt and multi client nfsv3 References: <4D86B6F2.1070004@conversis.de> <20110321140923.5a618d89@notabene.brown> <4D874419.5030303@conversis.de> <20110321172530.GA32359@fieldses.org> <4D87908E.1020107@conversis.de> <20110321181913.GA472@fieldses.org> <4D87A135.6090309@conversis.de> In-Reply-To: <4D87A135.6090309@conversis.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On 03/21/2011 08:04 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: [SNIP] > I'd be interested to move on to v4 but from what I've heard the > user-mapping no longer is done using the uid. Since the users don't have > entries in /etc/passwd and exist purely as id's in the filesystem the > username based mapping in nfsv4 doesn't allow me to use it in this case. > I guess the only way to accomplish that would be to write a custom > rpcidmapd daemon? > > I'm currently downloading the openfiler installer so I can replicate the > setup here for better testing. Maybe updating the nfs-utils package to a > more current version will have an impact. Apparently I need to export both the /exports directory and all the letter directories beneath it for the crossmnt option to work, e.g.: /exports 192.168... /exports/country/de/a 192.168... /exports/country/de/b 192.168... /exports/country/de/c 192.168... etc. Regards, Dennis