[Samba] 32 bits limit?

[Rowland Penny]

On 01/06/15 13:47, mathias dufresne wrote:
> Sorry I don't understand you answer. For me 32 bits platforms are dead on
> server side. So nobody would set up a new AD using Samba 4 above a 32 bits
> system.
>
> 2015-06-01 14:34 GMT+02:00 Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>:
>
>> Am 01.06.2015 um 14:09 schrieb mathias dufresne:
>>
>>> Still playing with a big database (120k users, 150k computers) I tried to
>>> split my users into a lot of OUs. This increased the database size and I
>>> was not able to finish to add users into the DB because database file has
>>> reached 4GB size which seems to be the limit.
>>>
>>> First: am I right to say file
>>> /var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb.d/DC=example,DC=com.ldb has a maximum size
>>> of 4GB?
>>>
>>> Secondly: if I'm right about the size limit, why this size limit?
>>>
>> because nobody expects such setups on 32bit?
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_file_support
>>
>>
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Hi, I think there is some misunderstanding here, probably because your 
subject was: '32 bits limit?'
I think what you mean is, 'even though I  am using a 64bit system, I can 
only have a 4GB  ldb file.', this is a valid question that I think will 
have to answered by one of the devs.

Rowland

Rowland