Sun accounting data

Barry Margolin barmar at kulla.arpa
Wed Nov 1 17:24:24 AEST 1989


In article <2556 at brazos.Rice.edu> stanonik at nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik) writes:
>I'd prefer to see nobody assigned a real small uid.  /usr/adm/usracct size
>is 32*maxuid, which is about 2Mb for uid 65534.  Most of that 2Mb is
>wasted unless you have ~64k users.

But most of that space would be empty.  Unix doesn't actually store file
blocks that are all zero.  So, the disk space allocated for the usracct
file would only be increased by at most one block.  Barry Margolin,
Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar at think.com
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