Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:52:45 +0100 From: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, 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: <23710000.1001335965@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010924050337.96D8539F0@overcee.netplex.com.au> References: <20010924050337.96D8539F0@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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--On Sunday, September 23, 2001 22:03:37 -0700 Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> wrote: > 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. In practice though there are parts of the system that don't work with 32 bit uids. Paul Richards FreeBSD Services Ltd http://www.freebsd-services.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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