Commit a602bea3 authored by Bryan Schumaker's avatar Bryan Schumaker Committed by Trond Myklebust

NFS: Update idmapper documentation

Signed-off-by: default avatarBryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
parent 3cd0f37a
...@@ -4,13 +4,21 @@ ID Mapper ...@@ -4,13 +4,21 @@ ID Mapper
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Id mapper is used by NFS to translate user and group ids into names, and to Id mapper is used by NFS to translate user and group ids into names, and to
translate user and group names into ids. Part of this translation involves translate user and group names into ids. Part of this translation involves
performing an upcall to userspace to request the information. Id mapper will performing an upcall to userspace to request the information. There are two
user request-key to perform this upcall and cache the result. The program ways NFS could obtain this information: placing a call to /sbin/request-key
/usr/sbin/nfs.idmap should be called by request-key, and will perform the or by placing a call to the rpc.idmap daemon.
translation and initialize a key with the resulting information.
NFS will attempt to call /sbin/request-key first. If this succeeds, the
result will be cached using the generic request-key cache. This call should
only fail if /etc/request-key.conf is not configured for the id_resolver key
type, see the "Configuring" section below if you wish to use the request-key
method.
If the call to /sbin/request-key fails (if /etc/request-key.conf is not
configured with the id_resolver key type), then the idmapper will ask the
legacy rpc.idmap daemon for the id mapping. This result will be stored
in a custom NFS idmap cache.
NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER must be selected when configuring the kernel to use this
feature.
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Configuring Configuring
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