Why is max groups set so low (16)?

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 25 18:13:23 PST 2003


After spending 3 hours debugging Samba problems I found the cause of the
problems is that I am >16 groups and our NGROUPS_MAX is set to 16.  My
question for this group, is why is NGROUPS_MAX set so low?  Is it because
NFS_MAXGRPS is 16 as specified in some NFS standard?

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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