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Message-ID: <20150305123150.GD623@swordfish>
Date:	Thu, 5 Mar 2015 21:31:50 +0900
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
Cc:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] make automatic device_id generation possible

On (03/05/15 13:10), Karel Zak wrote:
> > > we upgraded our scripts but landed some bugs there? it's up to particular
> > > implementation. in your example, I assume, someone used zram with num_devices >= 1000?
> > > that's impossible. current num_devices limitation is 32. and uid-s start from 1000.
[..]
> Why 1000?  
> 
> The UID_MIN and UID_MAX is nothing strictly defined, it's just option
> in /etc/login.defs. I guess it's nothing unusually to have system
> where UID_MIN is 500 :-)
> 

I meant on my system min is 1000 (don't know if anyone change min value
for any reason of his own), and current num_devices limit is 32, anyway.

	-ss
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