[OpenAFS-devel] Volume id range

[Hartmut Reuter]

Kris Van Hees wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	Is there any historic reason for why volume ids start at 0x20000000
> rather than simply starting from 0?  It seems to be a waste of a pretty large
> part of the id space, for no apparent reason?  Some backwards compatibility
> issue?

I suppose it helps to find FIDs in a dump if you know there must be a 
pattern 0x2000xxxx.
But when 7 years ago a part of our institute felt it necessary to have 
their own cell
I started it with 0x1000000000 to be able to later integrate them again. 
It works, of course,
the same.

Hartmut


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