March 27, 2014
11:25 a.m.
Hi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_unique_identifier is one way to uniquely identify users. It is used by Windows and Active Directory too. The size of a GUID is 128 bits. I want to store the GUID of an user on my experimental filesystem. 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