From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 25 19:14:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA09819 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 19:14:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumter.awod.com (awod.com [198.81.225.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA09814 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 19:14:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tsunami.awod.com (user-168-121-150-108.dialup.mindspring.com [168.121.150.108]) by sumter.awod.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA03283; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 22:13:59 -0400 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960826021355.008f977c@awod.com> X-Sender: klam@awod.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 22:13:55 -0400 To: Karl Denninger , julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) From: Ken Lam Subject: Re: UID < 65535? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Yuck. That means there really is a hard 16-bit limit if you use NFS to >store anything? > >Has this been addressed at all? Well maybe in a V4 of NFS? I haven't seen any new RFCs about NFS since V3 (which did expand file offset to 64bit). The only thing which I might suggest is AFS which has ownership controlled by Kerberos and doesn't have any UID limitations. Probably now what you were looking for... -k --- Ken Lam lam@awod.com Integrated Technical Systems Systems, Networks, and Internet Solutions -- Defining Technology Today "'Plug and Play' was only applicable to the original ATARI(tm)"