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* walt <w41ter@×××××.com> [110804 17:26]: |
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> I'm trying to be a good gentoo netizen by nfs-sharing /usr/portage between |
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> my three local gentoo machines, and failing :( |
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> After weeks of fiddling, I discovered today that my problems come from |
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> using a 32-bit machine to serve my two 64-bit NFS clients(!) |
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> (I'll mention up front that NFSv3 works perfectly -- only NFSv4 is bad.) |
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> For reasons I don't know, the 64-bit client machines mount the 32-bit |
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> NFSv4 share with UID/GID 0xffffffe, which won't let even root write to |
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> the rw share. |
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> I googled an old thread mentioning that 0xffff is decimal 65534, a UID |
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> traditionally assigned to the user 'nobody'. |
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> Can anyone else reproduce my problem, or give a hint how to work around |
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> it? |
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> (This list is so quiet today I'm wondering if gmane.org is down.) |
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Does using the no_root_squash export option help on the machine |
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exporting the filesystem? (See man exports) |
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Todd |
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