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On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 13:49 -0800, Jim Dennis wrote:
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> I ask primarily because of the interplay between 64-bit systems and
> things like /var/log/lastlog (which appears as a 1.2TiB file due to
> the nfsnobody UID of 4294967294).
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> (I'm realize that adding support for these additional seek() flags
> wouldn't solve the problem ... archiving tools would still have to
> implement it. And I can also hear the argument that Red Hat and other
> distributions should re-implement lastlog handling to use a more modern
> and efficient hashing/index format and perhaps that they should set
> nfsnobody to "-1" ...
So the presence of very high UIDs causes lastlog to be huge? That just
sounds like a RedHat bug.
Lee
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