Re: NFS TUNING: #define NFS3_MAXGROUPS

From: Christian Fischer
Date: Sun Sep 26 2004 - 11:21:30 EST


On Sunday 26 September 2004 18:10, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> No, it is NOT tunable. The SunRPC protocol (rfc1831) states clearly that
> the AUTH_SYS (a.k.a. AUTH_UNIX) structure is defined as
>
> struct authsys_parms {
> unsigned int stamp;
> string machinename<255>;
> unsigned int uid;
> unsigned int gid;
> unsigned int gids<16>;
> };
>
> If the BSDs are playing around with that, then they are not adhering to
> the protocol, and will be incompatible with all other SunRPC
> implementations.

That's a pity.
Christian
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