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

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:01:37PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> 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 

Think larger than "a machine".


> 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.

And what, exactly, is one supposed to do with forty thousand IDs already
allocated in the range that suddenly AFS declares for its own? You can't
just do that. It's fundamentally broken.


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