Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:28:06 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Bernie Doehner <bdoehner@enterasys.com> Cc: "Dreamtime.net Inc." <clients@dreamtime.net>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Symbolic Links Message-ID: <20010923232807.14C7A38FF@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0109181341140.39535-100000@roam.ctron.com>
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Bernie Doehner wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> Do you intend to have multiple users share UIDs?
>
> As far as I know, UIDs under BSD are only 16 bits wide, which gets you
> to 64K, not 1 million.
This is incorrect. uid/gid are 32 bit on FreeBSD.
> Do they all have to be on the same machine?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Bernie
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Dreamtime.net Inc. wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:30:24 -0700
> > From: Dreamtime.net Inc. <clients@dreamtime.net>
> > To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Symbolic Links
> >
> > Does anyone know the limit of how many symbolic links can be in one
> > directory? For one of our systems, we put a symbolic link in a directory pe
r
> > each user. We have an install coming that will be fore one million users. S
o
> > we need a symbolic link for each one. But wondering what the the max limit
> > for symbolic links is for one directory.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> >
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Cheers,
-Peter
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