anyone had experience expanding uid_t and gid_t?

[Julian Elischer]

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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