Re: Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core support package
>From alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Tue Feb 19 15:05:04 2002
>> >Agreed. The rest of the thread is junk but the basic initial question is a
>> >good one - why was bin forced to 1 ?
>>
>> In principle there is no reason to force a specifiv number.
>> However there is a reason to force identical numbers to allow NFS mounting of
>> /usr.
>No. Thats an argument for not forcing them in fact. If they are not dictated
>then you can pick an arbitary mapping and use that. Which means whatever
>legacy setup you have (providing it has no existing clashes) will work.
If you cannot rely on hardcoded numbers, then it will not work to NFS mount /usr
bewteen different distributions.
This looks much like you are not taking LSB for serious.
Note that neither NFS v1, nor V2 or v3 do contain any precautions to map user
ids.
Jörg
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