On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:03:36PM +0000, Knowledge Seeker wrote: > Hi, > I made the changes in 2 FreeBSD 8.0 stable boxes. One I've configured one as > a server and the other as the client. > But the 16 groups limit persists. > Even when I tried using a GNU/Linux Debian machine as a client with a Kernel > patched to work with the number of groups advertised by the server > (kernel-patch-nfs-ngroups), it does not work. > > > The files and lines changed in FreeBSD src were: > > include/rpc/auth_unix.h:#define NGRPS 64 > lib/libc/rpc/PSD.doc/xdr.nts.ms:#define NGRPS 64 > lib/libc/rpc/PSD.doc/xdr.nts.ms:#define NGRPS 64 > sys/rpc/authunix_prot.c:#define NGRPS 64 > sys/rpc/svc_auth_unix.c:#define NGRPS 64 > > I wish to do that as a temporary solution, once we intend to do a complete > migration to OpenAFS soon. > But now, It's really important to have this working. > Migrate to NFSv4 first, will be too much work, especially on clients. (Only > the server is a FreeBSD machine)
Realistically you're going to have to dig through the code and find all the hidden hard codings of 16. I don't know of any exisitng patches. -- Brooks
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