nfsv4, weird permissions

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:55:58AM -0400, Dave Quigley wrote:
> I'm not sure what distro this guy is running but this seems similar to a
> problem I had with the idmapd init scripts present in the nfs-utils
> package on Fedora. Since I compile a lot of development kernels I've
> noticed that if NFS is built into the kernel meaning the option is set
> to Y instead of M idmapd will fail to start up. The reason for this is
> because the init scripts try to probe the module and if it can't find it
> then it bails not mounting rpc_pipefs. What it really should do is first
> try to mount it then if that fails try modprobing for it. I thought this
> was a problem in the nfs-utils package but it seems that I can't find
> the init script in the repository so I guess it's something I need to
> bug the Red Hat people over.

Yeah, I've ended up just patching the init scripts to ignore the
modprobe error return.  Somebody should fix that if it hasn't been fixed
already.

--b.