On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 at 14:56, Michael van Elst <[email protected]> wrote: > > [email protected] (Adrian Chadd) writes: > > >quickly bringing it back to NGROUPS > 16 > > AUTH_SYS is 16 groups. RPCSEC_GSS is no groups but server uses > nameservice to get group list. Common extension for AUTH_SYS > is to ignore groups and also use nameservice like RPCSEC_GSS. > > Nothing in that is NFSv4 specific. > > You need a mechanism to allow the kernel to query nameservice. > and cache results. > > The extension for AUTH_SYS is obviously not compatible, but > the different behaviour is usually accepted. It needs to > be configurable on the server (globally or maybe per-export).
Do you think it's worth starting to tackle extending NGROUPS out after 16 is released? I figure there's a lot of stuff to get done but doing it just before a release seems ill timed. :-) -adrian
