nfsv4, weird permissions

[Kevin Coffman]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:58 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields at fieldses.org> wrote:
> 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.

The newer Fedora init scripts look at RPCMTAB.  In the non-modular
case, uncomment the line below in /etc/sysconfig/nfs:

# Don't load sunrpc module.
#RPCMTAB="noload"
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