From: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
Date: 08/02/92 

From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
Subject: Re: gid strangeness
Date: 2 Aug 1992 21:39:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug2.201320.9109@ifi.uio.no> janl@ifi.uio.no (Jan Nicolai Langfeldt) writes:
> But not for long, suddenly (after 30 sec?) it changes
> to something else, gid = oldgid%512; it seems.

This is an old problem of the Minix file system. Because the kernel
uses 16 bit gids, but the Minix FS only uses 8 bit gids, the upper
8 bits are lost whenever the inode is removed from memory and has to
be read back in from disk.

The EXT FS should be able to handle 16 bit gids.

- Werner 

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