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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0608231356180.14327@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:57:26 +0200 (MEST)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To: ray-gmail@...rabbit.org
cc: Robert Szentmihalyi <robert.szentmihalyi@....de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Group limit for NFS exported file systems
>
> Under 2.6 local group membership was expanded to 65536. NFS, however,
> is a standard separate from Linux, and it imposes a limit of 16 groups
> on the wire for the AUTH_UNIX credentials.
>
> If all your client systems are Linux, you can use the patch at:
> http://www.frankvm.com/nfs-ngroups/
> as a work around. (Only the client systems need the patch.)
If only the client needs to be patched, non-patched and/or non-Linux
clients and the server (linux or not) should have a problem, should they?
Jan Engelhardt
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