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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.
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> Has anyone expanded them?
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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..

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> This is starting to become a serious limitation in some places.
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> Especially large institutions with Samba active.
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> 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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