[NFS-Ganesha-Devel] Re: [Gluster-users] NFS-Ganesha question
On 10/16/2018 01:09 AM, Jiffin Tony Thottan wrote:
CCing ganesha list as well
On Monday 15 October 2018 07:44 PM, Renaud Fortier wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We are currently facing a strange behaviour with our cluster. Right
> now I’m running bitrot scrub against the volume but I’m not sure it
> will help finding the problem. Anyway, my question is about
> nfs-ganesha and NFSv4. Since this strange behaviour begun, I read alot
> and I found that idmapd is needed for NFSv4. If I run rpcinfo or ps
> –ef |grep idmapd on our nodes, I don’t see it.
>
> Is rpc.idmapd supposed to be running when using nfs-ganesha 2.6.3 with
> gluster 4.1.5 ?
>
IMO rpc.idmap as a service is not required for ganesha, but ganesha uses
apis from "libnfsidmap" for id mapping for confirming the same
idmapd is used to convert client usernames/IDs into server
usernames/IDs. This allows things like a user with UID 100 on one
client to map to the same user with UID 200 on another client. It's
not, strictly speaking, necessary; but it's very nice to have,
especially in large environments with diverse clients.
NFSv4 will work without it.
Daniel