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Date:      Sun, 23 Sep 2001 22:03:37 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        tlambert2@mindspring.com
Cc:        Bernie Doehner <bdoehner@enterasys.com>, "Dreamtime.net Inc." <clients@dreamtime.net>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Symbolic Links 
Message-ID:  <20010924050337.96D8539F0@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3BAEA521.9B569089@mindspring.com> 

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> Peter Wemm wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> So the NFS and quota code been converted to 32 bits?

No.  It always has been 32 bit in FreeBSD 2.x and beyond.

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


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