[Samba] 32 bits limit?

mathias dufresne infractory at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 07:28:58 MDT 2015


Once more, my bad : )
I'm using Ext4 file system, so no limitation from there (or missed
something)

2015-06-01 15:12 GMT+02:00 Sébastien Le Ray <sebastien-samba at orniz.org>:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any possibility that you're using a filesystem which such
> limitations?
>
> Regards
>
>
> Le 01/06/2015 15:11, mathias dufresne a écrit :
>
>> 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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