Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 14:18:38 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>, julian@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UID < 65535? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960827141707.23926O-100000@minnow.render.com> In-Reply-To: <199608261527.KAA00347@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > 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). In rfc 1813, NFSv3 specifies 32bit uids/gids. > > Once again we all learn that NFS stands for Network Fish Scraps, which > describes the odor of NFS pretty well. :-) Still smells pretty fishy though. Not as fishy as CIFS though.. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 FAX: +44 171 734 6426
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