Note also, that although NFSv4 uses strings for uid/gid/domain, the underlying RPC layer uses the same authentication credentials as in previous NFS versions and other RPC programs. Since it's the ...

To start with, we need to set up our top-level NFSv4 export directory. This is a “root” container, of sorts, where we can bind other mount points to it as subdirectories.

nfsv4 has the ability to take advantage of a 'psuedo file system', were you have a 'global' (for that server) directory tree. It appears that you are trying to take advantage of that.

With NFSv4.1, Qumulo customers spanning Higher Education, Life Sciences and Financial Information Services (FIS) industries will be able to delegate fine-grained permissions control to end-users ...

With the new enhancements to the NFSv4.1 protocol, there is additional support for authentication via Kerberos and file locking control. In NFSv3, users can impersonate any user with root access ...

“The enhancements to NFSv4.2, driven by Hammerspace and the open-source community, are transforming the protocol to meet the demands of today’s distributed and high-performance workloads. Features ...

NFSv4 enables SUSE Linux Enterprise to easily and quickly integrate into a customer's heterogeneous IT environment." Got a news tip for our journalists? Share it with us anonymously here.

The single biggest problem: NFS is designed for a single centralized server, not for scale-out. Today’s NFSv4 and even parallel NFS are still based on a centralized model.