eric@TriVergent.Net (Eric Hester) asks
Is there any kind of limitation on the maximum UID a netapp can handle? I.e. if I have a userid with a UID of 128900 is the netapp going to freak out, or does it have some 64-bit size limit?
ONTAP supports 32-bit uids & gids, which are the largest you can get through NFS v2/v3 anyway. It's done so at least since ONTAP 3.x (although I recall some problem with "dump" and/or "restore" truncating them mod 65536 in 3.1.6).
We regularly use uids & gids larger than 65536: up to 85000 at the moment, but I've tested it with far larger values.
If anything, the ONTAP quota system is rather more forgiving of very sparsely allocated uids than your typical Unix system. I can't think of any other data structures on the filer itself actually indexed by uid.
Chris Thompson University of Cambridge Computing Service, Email: cet1@ucs.cam.ac.uk New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG, Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.