Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:36:37 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UIDs greater than 65535? Message-ID: <19990218093637.A1696@internal> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990217221041.jdp@polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 10:10:41PM -0800 References: <XFMail.990217221041.jdp@polstra.com>
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On Wed, 17-Feb-1999 at 22:10:41 -0800, John Polstra wrote: > Can anybody think of a reason why UIDs > 65535 wouldn't work under > FreeBSD? They seem to work, and I can't find any reason why they > shouldn't. Even the NFS protocol (though not necessarily all NFS > servers) seems to be able to accomodate 4-byte UIDs. I can only tell that quotas get big problems with ultra large uid's. See PR# 2325. I have a local fix here... it is ugly as sin and it doesn't fix the problem but the effects. -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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