db_recover question

[frank.offermanns@caseris.de]

Since I haven't got an answer to my previous question. 
Maybe you could answer me this questions:

In the cases slapd.exe performes internal database cleanup at startup is 
it possible for LDAP clients to access 
the database while cleanup is running or will connect attempts from 
clients fail at that state.

If the database is locked while recovering we would be able to assume 
safely, that internal database recovery
at startup has completed when a client connect attempt succeeds. Can we?

> I searched the list and found several different informations to 
db_recover.
> In older versions it was not advised to do a manual db_recover.

> Can db_recover still harm a consistent database (I use db-5.1.25.NC / 
hdb)?

> To be more precise, should I try to find out, if a unclean shutdown 
occured and then db_recover manually or can I db_recover with the 5.1.25 
DB and Openldap 2.4.26 at every startup?

Thanks & Regards,
Frank