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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:43:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bernie Doehner <bdoehner@enterasys.com>
To:        "Dreamtime.net Inc." <clients@dreamtime.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-smp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Symbolic Links
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0109181341140.39535-100000@roam.ctron.com>
In-Reply-To: <JEELLDECNKBMDHPNMECKKEIPDLAA.clients@dreamtime.net>

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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.

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 per
> each user. We have an install coming that will be fore one million users. So
> 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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