On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:06:59PM -0700, John Plocher wrote:
> Darren J Moffat wrote:
> > That is called an incompatible change for Solaris.
>
> Since there is more and more support for making OpenSolaris
> a "Major (but lets not be stupid when doing it) Release",
> I don't see this as a showstopper.
>
> > What if a customer already has an account with a uid/gid >= 100 and we
> > add "reserved" account ? Answer "BOOM! bad things happen".
>
> The same bad things happen if the user has MacOS and/or Linux
> systems on their network today.
Not really. Not everyone pushes NFS everywhere. Surprises after
upgrade are much more likely than users with NFS enabled MacOSX.
> I'd argue that this is a place where "Linux Familiarity" trumps
> "the way we always have done things" and we should consider
> raising the reserved UID space. Having only a 100 reserved UIDs
> is getting to be a bit tight.
It's not even a "Linux Familiarity" issue. If space is running out,
it's running out and it should be fixed in the next Major release.
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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