Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:15:51 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UIDs greater than 65535? Message-ID: <XFMail.990218211551.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19990218093637.A1696@internal>
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Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for telling me about this. I took a brief look at it. It
looks like it won't be a problem for me, as long as the UID space is
tightly packed.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
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