Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:20:43 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: anyone had experience expanding uid_t and gid_t? Message-ID: <04ee890c-7830-4132-b504-d24472acb2ce@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <8028cee3-546a-55fd-159e-2e4c0aa7ebd6@freebsd.org> References: <8028cee3-546a-55fd-159e-2e4c0aa7ebd6@freebsd.org>
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On 19/8/17 11:15 am, Julian Elischer wrote: > at $JOB there are clients where 32bits is starting to chafe. > > Has anyone expanded them? > Other than a few offline comments I haven't heard anyone directly respond to this. Does anyone have any comments on feasibility or suggestions? NFSV3 will definitely be screwed.. > > This is starting to become a serious limitation in some places. > > Especially large institutions with Samba active. > > Samba uses a map between SIDs (session IDs) and UIDS, but it's a > sparse map and due to various issues the mapping is not able to > re-use numbers well. > > > >
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