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On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:19 AM, <wabenbau@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Thanks for the explanation. My NFS servers are running Ubuntu 14.04.1 |
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> LTS. Only my clients are gentoo systems. And on the clients I have no |
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> NFS 4 support in the kernel and I also don't have to specify nfsver=4. |
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> Maybe this problem only occurs with recent NFS versions on the server. |
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I've been running an nfs-root setup on a gentoo box (served from a |
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gentoo server) and I've run into a few issues along the way - |
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sometimes as a result of kernel upgrades. Honestly, NFS seems like a |
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big bucket of fail to me - the older versions mostly work, but rely on |
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a cobblework of daemons/layers to provide various features and it is |
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completely insecure. NFSv4 might as well be a completely different |
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filesystem and seems fairly complex to get working in a secure fashion |
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(kerberos, etc). I could only imagine what it would be like to get it |
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to work for my root filesystem with PXE boot. |
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Whenever I run into people and talk to them about file servers on |
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linux it seems like they tend to end up just using samba (not even |
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POSIX) or something like sshfs (which is also a bit of a hack, but one |
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which seems far simpler to use). |
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It just seems like this is a huge gaping hole for linux to have. That |
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said, fixing all the issues could have some far-reaching changes, like |
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switching to GUIDs for UIDs. |
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Rich |