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Re: Strange NFS behaviour



On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:19:47AM +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au>:
> > 
> >  On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:16:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:13:09AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > > > Does your /etc/exports file on the server say the client can write?
> > > > eg. /home/daniel 192.168.1.14(rw)
> > > 
> > > /exports/video
> > > 192.168.8.0/22(no_root_squash,secure,sync,rw,subtree_check,mp=/exports/
> > > video,crossmnt)
> > 
> >  found the problem, to many groups and a limit in the nfs protocol to 16
> >  groups. There is a work around
> >  RPCMOUNTDOPTS="--manage-gids"
> > 
> >  in nfs-kernel-server
> 
> I've had no luck finding information on this.  manpages & google
> groups haven't helped much (so far).
> 
> How portable is this?  Is this a Linux/FLOSS-ism, or is that in the
> NFS standard?  Googling some more ...  :-(
> 
>    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1094.html
> 
> Any second, it'll come to me.

have a look at this package  kernel-patch-nfs-ngroups  there is a link
to the site (I have purged it from my server)

man a look here
man mountd
search for  --manage-gids


my understanding is this solution doesn't break the nfs protocol, I also
I am unsure if this problem exists in nfsv4

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