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NFS: Update idmapper documentation

Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Bryan Schumaker 13 жил өмнө
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Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt

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 Id mapper is used by NFS to translate user and group ids into names, and to
 Id mapper is used by NFS to translate user and group ids into names, and to
 translate user and group names into ids.  Part of this translation involves
 translate user and group names into ids.  Part of this translation involves
-performing an upcall to userspace to request the information.  Id mapper will
-user request-key to perform this upcall and cache the result.  The program
-/usr/sbin/nfs.idmap should be called by request-key, and will perform the
-translation and initialize a key with the resulting information.
+performing an upcall to userspace to request the information.  There are two
+ways NFS could obtain this information: placing a call to /sbin/request-key
+or by placing a call to the rpc.idmap daemon.
+
+NFS will attempt to call /sbin/request-key first.  If this succeeds, the
+result will be cached using the generic request-key cache.  This call should
+only fail if /etc/request-key.conf is not configured for the id_resolver key
+type, see the "Configuring" section below if you wish to use the request-key
+method.
+
+If the call to /sbin/request-key fails (if /etc/request-key.conf is not
+configured with the id_resolver key type), then the idmapper will ask the
+legacy rpc.idmap daemon for the id mapping.  This result will be stored
+in a custom NFS idmap cache.
 
 
- NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER must be selected when configuring the kernel to use this
- feature.
 
 
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 Configuring
 Configuring