kern/173479: [nfs] chown and chgrp operations fail between FreeBSD 9.1RC3 NFSv4 server and RH63 NFSv4 client

[Rick Macklem]

Christopher D. Harrison wrote:
> do you know what that sysctl attr is called?
> -C
> 
I don't recall it and it seems I've deleted his email, but Jason Keltz
(which I've cc'd) emailed it to me and hopefully can remember it.

rick
ps: When I get it this time, I'll write it down in my note book.
    I'm "old and old fashioned", so that's how I remember stuff;-)

> On 11/26/12 21:19, Rick Macklem wrote:
> > Christopher D. Harrison wrote:
> >> The following reply was made to PR kern/173479; it has been noted
> >> by
> >> GNATS.
> >>
> >> From: "Christopher D. Harrison"<harrison at biostat.wisc.edu>
> >> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, jas at cse.yorku.ca
> >> Cc:
> >> Subject: Re: kern/173479: [nfs] chown and chgrp operations fail
> >> between FreeBSD
> >> 9.1RC3 NFSv4 server and RH63 NFSv4 client
> >> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:23:15 -0600
> >>
> >> The same problem also occurs in FreeBSD 9.0 release.
> >> -C
> >>
> > In case you didn't see the previous discussions, this happens for
> > Linux 3.3 or later kernels, where the default is to put the uid in
> > a string for the owner and owner_group attributes. RFC-3530, which
> > has not yet been replaced as the RFC for NFSv4.0 does not recommend
> > this. A requirement for client support of this is in an internet
> > draft called rfc3530bis, but this has not become an RFC yet.
> >
> > I think the Linux folks "jumped the gun" when they made this the
> > default. You can change this using a sysctl on the server, so that
> > it uses the<username>@<domain> format recommended by RFC-3530 or
> > you can upgrade to stable/9, which does have client support for
> > the uid in a string. (The "uid in a string" was added mainly to
> > support NFSv4 root mounts for diskless clients.)
> >
> > This PR will be closed when I get home next week and can do so.
> >
> > rick
> >
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