Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:37:50 -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.990222223750.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19990219074445.C4890@internal>
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Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> On Thu, 18-Feb-1999 at 21:15:51 -0800, John Polstra wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Hmm, I don't think it is the _packing_ of the UID space. It's the high
> UID's... If I understood it correctly, the quotas are handled as an
> array of structs (one 32 Byte struct for each user). My quota
> file has a size of 2097120. That means, 2097120/32 = 65535 entries
> which is correct. If you got a user ID of 10.000.000 the quota
> array should be already 320.000.000 bytes of size at least.
I understand. But I'm thinking in terms of, say, 80000 users with
UIDs numbered from 0 to 79999. So in my case, there's no intrinsic
problem beyond the fact that it's a helluva lot of users. It would
be different if I had 80000 users numbered from 1000000 to 1079999.
That's what I meant when I referred to the packing of the UID space.
John
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