Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:01:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Bernie Doehner <bdoehner@enterasys.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: "Dreamtime.net Inc." <clients@dreamtime.net>, <freebsd-smp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Symbolic Links Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0109240959050.72305-100000@roam.ctron.com> In-Reply-To: <20010923232807.14C7A38FF@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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I was going from the warning you get from vipw if you try to assign a UID greater than 64k (16 bits). I stand corrected, thanks. Even 32 bits doesn't get you to 1 million, but we are deviating from the original intent of this thread, about the maximum number of symbolic links in a dir. Bernie ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- === Bernie Doehner === === Firmware Engineer Enterasys Networks, Inc. === === bdoehner@enterasys.com 35 Industrial Way === === Office: (603) 337-1315 Rochester, NH 03866 === On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:28:06 -0700 > From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> > To: Bernie Doehner <bdoehner@enterasys.com> > Cc: Dreamtime.net Inc. <clients@dreamtime.net>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Symbolic Links > > Bernie Doehner wrote: > > Stephen, > > > > Do you intend to have multiple users share UIDs? > > > > As far as I know, UIDs under BSD are only 16 bits wide, which gets you > > to 64K, not 1 million. > > This is incorrect. uid/gid are 32 bit on FreeBSD. > > > Do they all have to be on the same machine? > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Bernie > > > > > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Dreamtime.net Inc. wrote: > > > > > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:30:24 -0700 > > > From: Dreamtime.net Inc. <clients@dreamtime.net> > > > To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Subject: Symbolic Links > > > > > > Does anyone know the limit of how many symbolic links can be in one > > > directory? For one of our systems, we put a symbolic link in a directory pe > r > > > each user. We have an install coming that will be fore one million users. S > o > > > we need a symbolic link for each one. But wondering what the the max limit > > > for symbolic links is for one directory. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > > > Stephen > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > > > > > > Cheers, > -Peter > -- > Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au > "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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