chown command on an NFS4 share does not work

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Issue

  • After running chown on an NFS4 mount point, owner is not changed:
 # chown -vvv www-data:www-data /srv/nfs_share
 ownership changed for /srv/nfs_share to www-data:www-data
 # ll -d /srv/nfs_share
 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 2048 24 Jul 11:41 /srv/nfs_share
  • Directory mount options are below:
 1.2.3.4:/nfs_share on /srv/nfs_share type nfs4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,addr=1.2.3.4,clientaddr=1.2.3.5)

Environment

  • NFS server:
    • HNAS from HITACHI 3100 version 8.2.
  • NFS client:
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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