Re: NFS TUNING: #define NFS3_MAXGROUPS

[Christian Fischer]

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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