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Article #228Re: LISA VI paper availible via anon ftp
From: Jim Rees
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:33
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:33
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In article <vanepp.721543207@sfu.ca>, vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) writes: If I had thought of it, I knew that :-), I was expecting that you might be big enough to run out of 65000+ uids. It's worse than that. There are still some Unix systems out there that store the uid in a signed short, which means you've only got 32,000 of them available. That's roughly the size of our user community, and I think we have about 28,000 assigned now, even without IFS extensively deployed. That doesn't leave much breathing room. We are small enough that we could make do with a single NFS fileserver to give us central file services... No way will that work with 30,000 users. Client caching is absolutely essential, and it's also nice to have some sane kind of sharing semantics (unlike what NFS gives you).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!pisa.citi.umich.edu!rees From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) Newsgroups: comp.unix.large,mi.misc Subject: Re: LISA VI paper availible via anon ftp Date: 12 Nov 1992 18:33:22 GMT Organization: University of Michigan CITI Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c53cdbd.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu> References: <1dmrsdINNcs4@nigel.msen.com> <scs.721401144@hela.iti.org> <vanepp.721411740@sfu.ca> <5c4efaf4.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu> <vanepp.721543207@sfu.ca> Reply-To: Jim.Rees@umich.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: pisa.citi.umich.edu