nfs-idmap.service removed

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 17:07 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 10:53 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
> > > Steve, can you elaborate? Do pure clients never need idmap?
> > With F17 we moved to the keyring based ID mapping, which eliminates 
> > the need for the rpc.idmapd daemon to be started on the client side.
> > 
> > Here is how it works...
> > 
> > With NFS v4 traffic, the kernel will receives a uid string of 
> > "steved at redhat.com" that needs to be translated into a UID integer.
> > So the kernel will do a keyring upcall to the nfsidmap binary. 
> > The upcall is enabled with the existence of the  
> > /etc/request-key.d/id_resolver.conf file.
> > 
> > The nfsidmap binary then converts the "steved at redhat.com" string
> > into the 3606 uid. That mapping is cached in the keyring
> > which makes available the next time its needed.
> > 
> > The nfsidmap(5) man page explains how entires on that keyring
> > can be manipulated. 
> > 
> > I hope this helps...
> 
> Thanks, but how about NFSv3 traffic? F17 clients will presumably still
> need to interact with NFSv3 servers.

Oh, never mind, of course I'm being dumb: idmap doesn't apply to NFSv3.
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