[PATCH] LMDB full patch set

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 7 May 2018 09:48:22 -0700
Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 05:45:40PM +0100, Rowland Penny via
> samba-technical wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 May 2018 09:35:54 -0700
> > Jeremy Allison via samba-technical <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 05:57:35PM +0200, Stefan Metzmacher via
> > > samba-technical wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > From reading the patches it seems that it will no longer
> > > > possible to build ldb or an AD DC without lmdb, e.g. 32bit
> > > > support will be gone. I don't think that's acceptable right
> > > > now, maybe in a few years.
> > > 
> > > Do we really have evidence of users/OEMs using 32-bit AD-DC's ?
> > > 
> > > I can see needing 32-bit for embedded small file servers, but
> > > AD-DC's ?
> > > 
> > > Just curious, I don't mind either way, but I thought the 32->64
> > > bit transition happened in the 2000 -> 2010 timeframe. I'd kind
> > > of assumed we were mostly done with it.
> > > 
> > > Jeremy.
> > > 
> > 
> > There are quite a few RaspberryPi AD DCs out there ;-)
> 
> Ah, that's what I'm missing. I assumed that even RaspberryPi's
> were 64-bit these days (don't use 'em myself :-).

The latest ones potentially are, but raspbian is still 32bit, perhaps
Samba going 64bit only might make them think again ;-)

Rowland