Attached is (yet another) form of a patch to remove the NGROUPS hard limit, again. As far as I know, this takes care of everyone's concerns (or at least any concerns that have been conveyed to me). There are a few things that could be tweaked, if people care. Are there any objections to this? Maybe it's too late for 2.6.0, maybe not. It's pretty simple. Arch code has not been done yet (simple) but will likely change this just a bit to remove some duplicated code. Also, fs/intermezzo will break with this. It needs attention from intermezzo people. Tim -- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems, Linux Kernel Engineering thockin@sun.com