Re: Some interesting thoughts

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> I've been having a discussion in #ldap with a Netscape user, and they 
> have a few things in Netscape features that make them prefer it over 
> OpenLDAP.
>
>
> 1) Database backups as part of a scheduled job.  It creates a backup 
> of the *.bdb files in a dated directory in the specified location.  
> Given the changes today to HEAD to allow architecture & release 
> independence of DB creation, this should be a snap, now that we have a 
> job scheduler.
By the way, the DB is not architecture-independent - entry IDs are 32 
bit on 32 bit platforms and 64 on 64. We may want to rethink this; I'm 
skeptical about needing to accomodate more than 4 billion entryIDs. I 
don't know of any deployments that will even approach 1 billion.

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