25 Jun
2015
25 Jun
'15
7:49 a.m.
Edward Rolison wrote:
Perhaps a slightly daft question, but I can't find the answer rummaging. Someone's just asked if there's a problem with going past 16 bit UIDs (>65535).
On 2015-6-24 18:39 , Parisi, Justin wrote:
Should not be an issue. Really depends on the client.
But cDOT can handle larger UIDs.
... and so can 7-mode. I haven't seen 32-bit UID issues on netapp in the ~15 years that we've been using 32-bit UIDs, on netapps. There might be some client OSes out there that do not get it, but I doubt you can still find hardware that run such ancient OSes.
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