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 ------------------------------------------------------------ Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-6679 UMR Information Technology Fax: (573) 341-4216 > -----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 > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel > > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
