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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-10 14:57:40 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-10 14:57:40 -0800
commit57eccf1c2acae2fcb748730881ba75643fc31c81 (patch)
treebe47ac42ef0b2e3e7157ce196ad2ed1224739c6c /Documentation
parent5c395ae7033099fc657114ea997858aa622f08b2 (diff)
parent074b1d12fe2500d7d453902f9266e6674b30d84c (diff)
downloadlinux-57eccf1c2acae2fcb748730881ba75643fc31c81.tar.gz
Merge branch 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs
* 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
  NFSv4: Change the default setting of the nfs4_disable_idmapping parameter
  NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open
  NFS: Remove pNFS bloat from the generic write path
  pnfs-obj: Must return layout on IO error
  pnfs-obj: pNFS errors are communicated on iodata->pnfs_error
  NFS: Cache state owners after files are closed
  NFS: Clean up nfs4_find_state_owners_locked()
  NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data
  nfs: fix a minor do_div portability issue
  NFSv4.1: cleanup comment and debug printk
  NFSv4.1: change nfs4_free_slot parameters for dynamic slots
  NFSv4.1: cleanup init and reset of session slot tables
  NFSv4.1: fix backchannel slotid off-by-one bug
  nfs: fix regression in handling of context= option in NFSv4
  NFS - fix recent breakage to NFS error handling.
  NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT
  SUNRPC: Clean up the RPCSEC_GSS service ticket requests
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9373d95319c1..73baff1e0c70 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1634,12 +1634,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
 
 	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
-			[NFSv4] When set, this option disables the NFSv4
-			idmapper on the client, but only if the mount
-			is using the 'sec=sys' security flavour. This may
-			make migration from legacy NFSv2/v3 systems easier
-			provided that the server has the appropriate support.
-			The default is to always enable NFSv4 idmapping.
+			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
+			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
+			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
+			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
+			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
+			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
+			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
+			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
+			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
+			back to using the idmapper.
+			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
 
 	nmi_debug=	[KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
 			when a NMI is triggered.