Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:34:20 +0300 (EEST) | From | Panu Matilainen <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCH 1/4] fix NGROUPS hard limit (resend) |
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Tim Hockin wrote:
> Jesse Pollard wrote: > > > Does it actually work with NFS???? or any networked file system? > > Most of them limit ngroups to 16 to 32, and cannot send any data > > if there is an overflow, since that overflow would replace all of the > > data you try to send/recieve... > > NFS has a smaller limit, that is correct. An unfortunate limitation. > > > And I really doubt that anybody has 10000 unique groups (or even > > close to that) running under any system. The center I'm at has > > some of the largest UNIX systems ever made, and there are only > > about 600 unique groups over the entire center. The largest number > > of groups a user can be in is 32. And nobody even comes close. > > I'm glad it doesn't affect you. If it was a more common problem, it > would have been solved a long time ago. It does affect some people, > though. Maybe they can redesign their group structures, but why not > remove this arbitrary limit, since we can?
This is a real, if not terribly common problem here too. Thanks for addressing the issue...
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