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SubjectRe: Ext3 filesystem info?
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Jesse Pollard wrote:

> It can't be easily raised. The problem with NFS - the protocol only has
> room for 16 entries. As long as communication with non-Linux
> systems - fileservers or clients - is done this limit must be respected.
> The only way to handle it when the host supports more than 16 is to truncate
> the list to 16 when dealing with the remote system. Then you get the problem
> of which 16 out of N (where N > 16).

Oh, yes! You are right. I completely forgot about NFS. Even worse, old,
classical NFS only supports 8 groups. At some NFS version (or as part of
some vendors defacto standard) it was raised a bit. I remember the NFS
problems we got with several (at that time pretty new) AIX servers where
root appeared to be in more than 8 groups which was a pretty new concept
then.

Michael.

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