[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] 2.6 kernel support anytime soon? Workarounds?

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Tue, 11 May 2004 14:01:37 -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> said:

> It had better not be.  As administrator of a machine, the GID space is 
> entirely under your control.  If you're going to run an AFS client, you 
> currently need to reserve GID's in the range 0x3F00-0xFEFF for AFS.  That 
> still leaves 16K groups for non-AFS uses, which is far more than most 
> systems will ever need.

This could bite us very hard.  Our users are set up with primary gid
== uid, and the shared UID space runs from 5000 to 32000.

-GAWollman