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

[Atro Tossavainen]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 14:13:23 -0400, GAWollman wrote:

> 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.

Ded Rat does this, too.  Would somebody bother explaining to me what
the supposed benefit of this is?  Judging from my viewpoint as a
systems administrator in another multi-OS, multi-architecture, multi-
department, multi-everything AFS shop, I can't see where it is coming
from and whether it does any good.

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