From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roar_Thron=E6s?= <roart@nvg.ntnu.no> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large master.passwd Message-ID: <Pine.GS4.4.10.9905151508070.875-100000@phoenix.nvg.ntnu.no> In-Reply-To: <199905141736.KAA02782@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Fri, 14 May 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Hi > : > :On a site with 20k users in the master.passwd, and where NIS is not > :trusted, the master.passwd is distributed to each workstation. > :The pwd.db and spwd.db are sized around 10Mb. > : > :Sometimes, those .db files get corrupt. > :I suspect it has something to do with the machines being reset etc before > :the sync is finished. (The machines are dual-boot, and there are a lot of > :users around.) > : > :I did some patching, and have not seen corrupted .db-files since. > : > :So how usable is this patch? > :Worth intregrating? > > What version of FreeBSD are you running? mmap is used heavily with the > password DBM's and at least one mmap bug known to cause corruption in > those files was fixed a month or two ago. I do not remember whether it > was backported to 2.2.x, though. 2.2.8R. But planning to upgrade the workstations to 3.1R/3.2R soon. -Roar Thronęs To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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