In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Jeffrey Hutzelman w rites: >Well, actually there is still an issue. The reason PAG's are only 24 bits >wide is so that we can use the remaining bits to flag a particular value as >being a PAG ID rather than a UID. Since tokens, fileserver connections, >and cached access rights can be associated with either, they have to belong >to the same namespace. We could fix this, of course, but it will take some >doing.
once we do away with using groups to encode this information, i suspect that we would no longer need to use 8 bits to indicate that this is an afs pag. the pag key will only contain a pag. with the current code, i suspect one would get clever and use fewer bits to detect the afs pag groups. something like an ECC/cksum in the upper 4 bits instead of 'A' in the upper 8. 28 bits would wrap around in 3172 days (at one pag per second) instead of 194 days. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
