Hi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_unique_identifier is one way to uniquely identify users. It is used by Active Directory too. The size of a GUID is 128 bits. I want to store the GUID of users who creates files, on my experimental filesystem https://github.com/psankar/simplefs The size of the "uid" in UNIX is just 16 bits. So what is the way used by the Linux [filesystems] to store the GUID in linux to uniquely identify an user ? Were there any proposals in the past, to increase the size of the unix uid to match that of a GUID ? -- Sankar P http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
