I think Jeff's numbers were a bit too wide... I believe that if you
reserve over >=32512 you should be fine.

i.e. 7F00 - BF00 would be the range you want to avoid... 

-- Nathan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garrett Wollman
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:13 PM
> To: Jeffrey Hutzelman
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] 2.6 kernel support 
> anytime soon? Workarounds?
> 
> <<On Tue, 11 May 2004 14:01:37 -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> > It had better not be.  As administrator of a machine, the 
> GID space is 
> > entirely under your control.  If you're going to run an AFS 
> client, you 
> > currently need to reserve GID's in the range 0x3F00-0xFEFF 
> for AFS.  That 
> > still leaves 16K groups for non-AFS uses, which is far more 
> than most 
> > systems will ever need.
> 
> 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.
> 
> -GAWollman
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