When and why to deprecate filesystems

Posted Mar 12, 2022 19:29 UTC (Sat) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
In reply to: When and why to deprecate filesystems by jhoblitt
Parent article: When and why to deprecate filesystems

I'd be happier with this is NFSv4 user mapping wasn't such a massive screw-up to the extent that on my home network I just mapped every local user to a single nobody user on NFS because getting anything else to work was impossible.

When and why to deprecate filesystems

Posted Mar 12, 2022 20:25 UTC (Sat) by jhoblitt (subscriber, #77733) [Link]

The documentation is definitely suboptimal. AFAIK, useful idmaping requires krb5. I haven't dug into the details -- this may be a server implementation decision instead of a limitation of the v4 protcol. If krb5 is in use, there is a good chance that UIDs/GIDs are coordinated and idmaping isn't nessicary. I use v4 heavily at my $day_job without remapping without much complaint other than there being no showmount equiv (but I think it so be possible to write a usespacer cli client that does ls on the root export).