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Re: db(3) removal and lastlogx



On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:50:54PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>  > With 32bit uids, this will be very large files. We should avoid this.
> 
> Only if you carefully choose your UID space relative to the file
> system block size to maximize the amount of unused space that must
> nonetheless be materialized. That is foolish.

My UID space is not dense, but I meant large by what's displayed with ls -l.

> 
> Unless you expect to have a billion users...?

No, just a few users with large uids.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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