From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 18 0:36:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2969411099 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:36:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from salomon.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA13649 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:36:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA28048 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:36:38 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04808 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:36:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:36:37 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: John Polstra Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UIDs greater than 65535? Message-ID: <19990218093637.A1696@internal> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from John Polstra on Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 10:10:41PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 17-Feb-1999 at 22:10:41 -0800, John Polstra wrote: > Can anybody think of a reason why UIDs > 65535 wouldn't work under > FreeBSD? They seem to work, and I can't find any reason why they > shouldn't. Even the NFS protocol (though not necessarily all NFS > servers) seems to be able to accomodate 4-byte UIDs. I can only tell that quotas get big problems with ultra large uid's. See PR# 2325. I have a local fix here... it is ugly as sin and it doesn't fix the problem but the effects. -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message