Archaic wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:35:37PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >>I want to put that in in the next week or two. Note that we will not be >>using 65xxx for nobody/nogroup. There is no technical reason to do that >>for properly configured systems. > > But is there a technical reason not to? Are there any broken packages > that do not use names, but rather UID/GID? I know about the sparse file > thing, but which filesystems do not allow for sparse files?
But there *are* some file systems that do not support sparse files. I'm not sure which ones, but I believe that it is an issue on the LFS CD. Why do something different for those? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
