RE: BDB recovery after power outage

[Frank Swasey <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu>]

Today at 5:12am, Howard Chu wrote:

> OK, let me give you some information on who I am and where I'm coming from. I
> am a member of the OpenLDAP core team, my company Symas pays for my time

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Thank you.  I didn't realize you were the driving force behind all those 
pieces.

> An aside - the people complaining on this list saying "OpenLDAP isn't meant
> to perform" really piss me off. I and the other active developers have spent
> countless hours working on the performance and stability of this thing, and
> our efforts have paid off in substantial gains.

I have never said that, nor will I.  I happen to disagree with it 
myself.  I have said, and I will continue to until it becomes false, 
that IN MY ENVIRONMENT and WITH MY UNDERSTANDING OF BDB the LDBM backend 
using BDB outperforms the BDB backend.  I'll be a very happy person the 
day I figure out where I've made my mistakes.

> > I can't pay for anything.
> 
> Well then you should be glad to have what you have already. You think the
> world owes it to you to give you powerful software for free?

That's just un-called for.  If I take your logic to the ultimate, those 
that can't afford food (and really need true charity) should be happy to 
eat moldy bread.  I think not.  I have already stated, I will put 
something together.  I will.  I'm not qualified, but if it stirs just 
one person who is qualified to spend some time fixing the mistakes I'll 
make in my documentation, then that's an improvement over where we are 
today.

> This is not play for me; this is my livelihood. It takes a lot of time and

I'm sorry, I did not mean to imply it was play for you.

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