From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 27 10:15:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA15820 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 10:15:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA15814 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 10:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (minnow.render.com [193.195.178.1]) by minnow.render.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA05984; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 14:18:40 +0100 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 14:18:38 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Joe Greco cc: Karl Denninger , julian@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UID < 65535? In-Reply-To: <199608261527.KAA00347@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > Yuck. That means there really is a hard 16-bit limit if you use NFS to > > store anything? > > Last time I checked. Aren't there also limits in Yellow Pages^H^H^H^H^H^H > I mean NIS?? > > > Has this been addressed at all? > > I don't think NFSv3 allows anything else (could be wrong). In rfc 1813, NFSv3 specifies 32bit uids/gids. > > Once again we all learn that NFS stands for Network Fish Scraps, which > describes the odor of NFS pretty well. :-) Still smells pretty fishy though. Not as fishy as CIFS though.. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 FAX: +44 171 734 6426