From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 26 08:29:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA19305 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 08:29:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA19300 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 08:29:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id KAA00347; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:27:39 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199608261527.KAA00347@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: UID < 65535? To: karl@mcs.net (Karl Denninger) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:27:39 -0500 (CDT) Cc: julian@whistle.com, karl@mcs.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199608260059.TAA11578@Jupiter.mcs.net> from "Karl Denninger" at Aug 25, 96 07:59:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text 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? 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). Once again we all learn that NFS stands for Network Fish Scraps, which describes the odor of NFS pretty well. :-) ... JG