On 11/11/2021 12.48, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2021, Florian Schmaus wrote:
We could:
- Open some part of the range between 500 and 1000. For example,
500..799, which would leave 200 IDs for dynamic allocation.
+1, since I am not aware of any significant downsides doing so.
Could you elaborate why the range 500-799 only leaves us with 200 IDs?
We still need some range for dynamic allocation. Currently that is
500..999, and would be reduced to 800..999. That seems to be on the low
side already.
Thanks. I simply missed the "for dynamic allocation" part in your
initial mail. :/
In any case, 300 additional IDs may not be future proof at the rate
we're currently allocating them.
I am not so sure about that. Looking at the git log of uid-gid.txt there
have been 3 allocations in the last 3 months. And around 4 months ago,
conikost allocated a lot of IDs, which probably lead to the ID space
exhaustion we are seeing. But I believe it could be possible that the ID
allocation rate now stays low because we probably allocated IDs for most
current use-cases now. So maybe the simplest and safest bet is to open
the range from 500-799 for static IDs.
But I don't have a strong opinion on that.
- Flow
