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- From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.large,mi.misc
- Subject: Re: LISA VI paper availible via anon ftp
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 18:33:22 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan CITI
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- References: <1dmrsdINNcs4@nigel.msen.com> <scs.721401144@hela.iti.org> <vanepp.721411740@sfu.ca> <5c4efaf4.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu> <vanepp.721543207@sfu.ca>
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- In article <vanepp.721543207@sfu.ca>, vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) writes:
-
- If I had thought of it, I knew that :-), I was expecting that you might be
- big enough to run out of 65000+ uids.
-
- It's worse than that. There are still some Unix systems out there that
- store the uid in a signed short, which means you've only got 32,000 of them
- available. That's roughly the size of our user community, and I think we
- have about 28,000 assigned now, even without IFS extensively deployed. That
- doesn't leave much breathing room.
-
- We are small enough that we could make do with
- a single NFS fileserver to give us central file services...
-
- No way will that work with 30,000 users. Client caching is absolutely
- essential, and it's also nice to have some sane kind of sharing semantics
- (unlike what NFS gives you).
-