On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> We are not taking the concept of this user/group away. We are also not
> taking the UID/GID assignment 65534 away, either. All we are doing is
> assigning it a better name and do so unconditionally, independently of
> whether nfsutils is installed or not, as the UID/GID 65534 has plenty
> uses outside of NFS.

fixing something well and extensively documented, to something 
'new and improved' in the face of a huge and unchangeable set 
of implementations (and third-party webbish documentation) 
that cannot be changed:

        RO media 

        off-line images
 
        backups
 
        iscsi targets
 
        NFS exports from third-party appliances
 
        interop in hetergoneous environments
 
        SMB

... is this really worth the effort?  All it does, like the 
XKCD 'N+1 standards' cartoon, is add one more 'standard' that 
cannot displace the incumbents and diverges from 'Unix' for 
an, at best, cosmetic reason, as you state:

        All we are doing is assigning it a better name ...

-- Russ herrold
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