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- From: mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney)
- Subject: Re: $add_holder is slow...
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:03:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.193905.13763@sarah.albany.edu> sysbrc@loki.albany.edu (Brian Cuttler) writes:
- >In article <C031y8.9Bz@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney) writes:
- >
- >>Recently, I set about rebuilding the rightslist for the cluster, in order to
- >>get each node in sync again, and make sure that everybody has only what they
- >>need. We have 5 different rights, of which everybody has at least one. They
- >>are:
- >>
- >> UCS - people who work at UCS
- >> STAFF - staff members
- >> FACULTY -faculty members
- >> GRAD - grad students
- >> UGRAD - undergraduate students
- >>
- >>Does anyone know a way to speed this up? Pretty much anything is possible
- >>with the machine that we are using. Thanks in advance.
- >>
- >> Darrin
- >
- >Darrin,
- >
- >Is there another way to do what you want? Instead of using rights what
- >if you were to assign each identifer a range of UIC groups, then you
- >would only have to track the users that were in more than a single
- >catagory.
-
- Unfortunately, we don't have the convenience of changing anything right
- now. There's alot of software that depends on these rights being in
- place, and with 40,000 UIC's randomly distributed, with 60 or so disks,
- changing anything would not be a formidable task.
-
- Darrin
- > Brian
- >
- >
- >--
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Brian R Cuttler | bitnet: sysbrc@albnyvms
- > Senior System Programmer | internet: sysbrc@uacsc1.albany.edu
- > State Univ of NY at Albany | phone: 518-442-3906
-
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