From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Sep 24 5:54: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B18A837B40A for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 05:53:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lobster.originative.co.uk (lobster [62.232.68.81]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9881D1A6; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:52:45 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:52:45 +0100 From: Paul Richards To: Peter Wemm , tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Bernie Doehner , "Dreamtime.net Inc." , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Symbolic Links Message-ID: <23710000.1001335965@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010924050337.96D8539F0@overcee.netplex.com.au> References: <20010924050337.96D8539F0@overcee.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --On Sunday, September 23, 2001 22:03:37 -0700 Peter Wemm wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: >> Peter Wemm wrote: >> > > 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. >> > >> > This is incorrect. uid/gid are 32 bit on FreeBSD. >> >> So the NFS and quota code been converted to 32 bits? > > No. It always has been 32 bit in FreeBSD 2.x and beyond. In practice though there are parts of the system that don't work with 32 bit uids. Paul Richards FreeBSD Services Ltd http://www.freebsd-services.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message