Refactor fid type to use u64 everywhere #159
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We were converting fids from u64 to u32 and back all over. Now we use u64 everywhere, except right before writing to the db and right after reading from it.
The original reason to use u32 was to save on disk space, this preserves the space savings but it's cleaner to deal with u64 everywhere.