From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 18 21:15:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32880114D3 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:15:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA21325; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:15:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id VAA00527; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:15:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990218093637.A1696@internal> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:15:51 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Andre Albsmeier Subject: Re: UIDs greater than 65535? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message