Re: Courier or Cyrus
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> > UID limit hits at 65535. So you can only get about 64k users created per
> > box, regardless of anything else.
> I believe (someone correct me if I'm wrong) that as of kernel 2.6 this number
> is much higer - somewhere over a million.
I have a box using 30-bit UIDs under 2.4, without any issues. There is *no*
UID->name mapping in use for the high UIDs though, so I do not know if that
would work right (we use the numeric UID).
> Thanks. That's the worst part of designing this. At the moment I'm working
> on how to build a multi-box system that can easily be expanded by just adding
> more boxes. Much easier said than done.
That is actually very easy to do with Cyrus (!). Just add another backend
box to a Cyrus murder cluster.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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