Re: [BK PATCH 1/2] Remove NGROUPS hardlimit (resend w/o qsort)

Frank van Maarseveen
2002-11-15T13:26:58Z

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:31:56PM -0500, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > > 2. How do these changes sit with LLNL's changes to increase
> > > number of groups that NFS client can support? It's not
> > > a showstopper, but would be nice if you two cooperated.
> >
> > hmm, I haven't heard anything about them - can you offer an email or URL?
>
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.0/0788.html
>
> The sad part is that the patch was around since 2000, but the
> effort to get it in was a little half-hearted, perhaps.
> I am thinking about reviving it.

It's still alive. I'll make a 2.4.20 version of the patch once 2.4.20
is released. Or maybe earlier (a -rc version) since 2.4.20 appears to
be imminent and I don't expect changes in that area. 2.5.latest is next
on my list. Latest version is:

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/fvm/nfs-ngroups/2.4.19-nfs-ngroups-3.98.patch

I have dropped all the older versions (they go back to 2.2.13)

--
Frank