Re: db(3) removal and lastlogx

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:54:51PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost (Manuel Bouyer) writes:
> 
> >With 32bit uids, this will be very large files. We should avoid this.
> 
> In particular because we went to use db to avoid sparse files.

It's impossible to tell from the history, which is why I brought this
up. Note that the lack of used markers in lastlog (not lastlogx) made it
hard to find which entries are present. That was a serious limitation of
the old format.

Joerg