[Cialug] nfs permissions

[L. V. Lammert]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:

> Is the backup running as root?  By default NFS has a feature called "root
> squashing" that changes the root userid to nobody.  You have to add the
> "norootsquash" parameter to the exports file on the NFS server to disable
> it.
>
Thanks! I saw that, but that's only half the problem - rsync must preserve
UID/GIDs on the target files - it seems that is not possible with a nfs
mount?

	Lee