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Date:      Thu, 26 Dec 1996 23:26:45 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent)
Cc:        owensc@enc.edu (Charles Owens), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers), ben@narcissus.ml.org
Subject:   Re: multi-group file access techniques / directory hardlinks 
Message-ID:  <E0vdVkj-0001hq-00@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Dec 1996 14:00:01 %2B1100." <Mutt.19961227140001.davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au> 
References:  <Mutt.19961227140001.davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au>  <199612262141.WAA00148@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.FBS.3.93.961226183435.24907A-100000@dingo.its.enc.edu> 

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In message <Mutt.19961227140001.davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au> David Nugent writes:
: Unlike the 200 limit, though, a change here will affects the
: kernel, not just userland code. There may not be a way of
: making it "unlimited" without some significant redesign which
: may break POSIX or other design specifications (I don't know),
: but afaik there's no reason that this small limit could be raised
: to, say, 64. But beyond a solution that involves lifting it to a
: ridiculously high number, whatever limit is set is going to be
: arbitrary.

NFS v2 has hard limits in the number of groups a user may belong to,
if memory serves me correctly.

Warner



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