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

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 1:19 PM -0500 5/11/04, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
>I think Jeff's numbers were a bit too wide... I believe that if
>you reserve over >=32512 you should be fine.
>
>i.e. 7F00 - BF00 would be the range you want to avoid...
>
>-- Nathan
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>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: openafs-devel-admin@openafs.org
>>  [mailto:openafs-devel-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Garrett Wollman
>>  Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:13 PM
>  > To: Jeffrey Hutzelman
>  >
>  > 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.
>  > -----End Message-----

If I am reading the include-files right, in the land of freebsd
we have gid's that are 32-bits wide.  aka __uint32_t

Could we just move the range used by AFS for PAG-values?

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu