[Samba] 32 bits limit?

mathias dufresne infractory at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 07:11:04 MDT 2015


Hi,

You're quiet right, I'm using a 64 bits system and I was surprised by this
file size limitation on such a system. My bad regarding the title : )

Cheers,

mathias

2015-06-01 15:03 GMT+02:00 Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>:

> 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
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