[PATCH] LMDB full patch set
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Thu May 3 23:51:49 UTC 2018
On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 21:47 +0100, Howard Chu wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 20:07 +0100, Howard Chu wrote:
> > >
> > > Next release probably in a couple weeks.
> > >
> > > But not bundling makes no sense to me, you won't have MDB_VL32 support on
> > > 32bit builds. As I recall, 32bit support was the main reason we started this
> > > conversation however-many-years ago.
> >
> > OK. What happens if you build on 32 bit on the older versions?
>
> Then you're limited to a 2GB database size.
Thanks. That (oddly) isn't a concern for me, I'm really not worried
about large AD domains on 32 bit platforms.
> > In any case this is an AD DC only feature so far so I'm happy to
> > require that folks either have a modern lmdb or be on 64 bit. It will
> > be different if the file server side takes it on, but folks running an
> > AD DC on a 32 bit old enterprise linux are rare I think.
>
> It's not about new vs old version; MDB_VL32 is a non-default build flag. It's
> been there for 3-4 years already. It remains non-default because supporting
> larger than 32bit DBs on a 32bit machine is necessarily slower than native
> 32bit support.
OK. I know we asked for it but I'll leave that for someone who needs
it before I make things more complex.
Thanks,
Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team https://samba.org
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