Agreed! People really need to get on NFSv4, it solves soo many issues with NFSv2/v3. I've been using it since S10 was in beta and it's a huge improvement. The only issue is how poorly some other OS's support NFSv4 and even some NAS filers out there. But all the more reason to invest in Solaris:)
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: [email protected] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Jan Kryl <[email protected]> To: codex chen <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Mon, December 27, 2010 7:42:27 AM Subject: Re: [nfs-discuss] Solaris 10 x86/SPARC rpc.mountd with 16 GIDs limitation On 22/12/10 01:41 -0800, codex chen wrote: > Hi all, > > 16 GIDs limitation on NFS exists for a long time. > Recently I noticed that the Linux NFS-utils 1.1.5 rpc.mountd just added > one parameter called "-g / --manage-gids" to override the 16-gid limitations. > > I went back to Solaris 10 u9 and tried to check the version of >/usr/lib/nfs/mountd; I found the mountd still stays at 2005 version. Is it >possible to enhance the mountd > so that it can support "-g" parameter as well? > > Without patching the mountd the NFS-exported zfs filesystems still suffer > with >16-gid limitation. > > > Will Oracle add this parameter of mountd in the next version of Solaris / >opensolaris or this will be patched in Oracle's commercial productions/storage >systems only? > Long-term solution for this problem is to use NFS version 4. -jan _______________________________________________ nfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] _______________________________________________ nfs-discuss mailing list [email protected]
