Re: anyone had experience expanding uid_t and gid_t?

2017-08-22 Thread Rick Macklem
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

Re: anyone had experience expanding uid_t and gid_t?

2017-08-21 Thread Julian Elischer
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

anyone had experience expanding uid_t and gid_t?

2017-08-18 Thread Julian Elischer
at $JOB there are clients where 32bits is starting to chafe. Has anyone expanded them? 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