I've heard this affects NFS when using AUTH_SYS (still common). What impact will be seen there?
Here's a blog with a good description of the NFS problem: http://nfsworld.blogspot.com/2005/03/whats-deal-on-16-group-id-limitation.html > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI > This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > Increase the maximum value of NGROUPS_MAX to 1024 > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > Author: Casper Dik > 1.3 Date of This Document: > 08 October, 2009 > 4. Technical Description > I'm sponsoring this fasttrack for myself. > > Binding: patch/micro > > This project proposes changing the maximum value for NGROUPS_MAX > from 32 to 1024 by changing the definition of NGROUPS_UMAX from 32 > to 1024. [...]
