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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:34:20 +0300 (EEST)
From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@welho.com>
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Subject: Re: [BK PATCH 1/4] fix NGROUPS hard limit (resend)
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Tim Hockin wrote:

> Jesse Pollard wrote:
> 
> > Does it actually work with NFS???? or any networked file system?
> > Most of them limit ngroups to 16 to 32, and cannot send any data
> > if there is an overflow, since that overflow would replace all of the
> > data you try to send/recieve...
> 
> NFS has a smaller limit, that is correct.  An unfortunate limitation.
> 
> > And I really doubt that anybody has 10000 unique groups (or even
> > close to that) running under any system. The center I'm at has
> > some of the largest UNIX systems ever made, and there are only
> > about 600 unique groups over the entire center. The largest number
> > of groups a user can be in is 32. And nobody even comes close.
> 
> I'm glad it doesn't affect you.  If it was a more common problem, it 
> would have been solved a long time ago.  It does affect some people, 
> though.  Maybe they can redesign their group structures, but why not 
> remove this arbitrary limit, since we can?

This is a real, if not terribly common problem here too. Thanks for 
addressing the issue...

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