From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 26 08:44:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA20143 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 08:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA20133 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 08:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailbox.mcs.com (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id KAA17252; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:36:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mailbox.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5) id ; Mon, 26 Aug 96 10:36 CDT Received: (from karl@localhost) by Jupiter.mcs.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) id KAA13897; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:36:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Karl Denninger Message-Id: <199608261536.KAA13897@Jupiter.mcs.net> Subject: Re: UID < 65535? To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:36:23 -0500 (CDT) Cc: karl@Mcs.Net, julian@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199608261527.KAA00347@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Aug 26, 96 10:27:39 am 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 Agreed. Now Show me an available means of accomplishing the same goal without it. Since I've yet to see one, the rules are that we need to adapt the code to fit reality, not whine and bitch about how awful it is. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1 from $600 monthly; speeds to DS-3 available | 23 Chicagoland Prefixes, 13 ISDN, much more Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | Home of Chicago's only FULL Clarinet feed!