SEC:ULarger NGROUPS_MAX in CURRENT ? Ready for 7.0-R ?

[Wilkinson, Alex]

    0n Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:40:07AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: 

       >> AFAIK the only problem with this is that NFS will fail with larger
       >> number of groups, so (for those not using NFS) why not make the number
       >> of groups an item in kernel configurations and make a compile-time and
       >> module-load-time checks for this in the NFS code?
    >
    >Sure, we look forward to reviewing your patches.

Linux has done some interesting work with respect to this. They have implemented
"Dynamic Allocation of Groups Array When Required" [http://lwn.net/Articles/50916/].
And can allocate up to:

     #cat /proc/sys/kernel/ngroups_max
     65536

I thought NFSv4 no longer has the 16 group limitation ?

 -aW

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