RE: LDAP extensions for subtrees.

[Alan Lloyd <Alan.Lloyd@OpenDirectory.com.au>]

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> >>> David Boreham <dboreham@netscape.com> 6/23/99 10:22:24 AM >>>
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> Bruce Greenblatt wrote:
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> > operations from a transaction log.  What do you think?  I think that
> it
> > ought to be possible to save a snapshot of the LDAP database, store
> off a
> > serialized sequence of operations, and then replay them, and come up
> with
> > the same end result time after time.
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> This is precisely the worry I have with this proposal !
> What if the database is 200Gbytes ? Do you tell your
> customers to reserve 200Gbytes of space on the off-chance
> that they'll want to delete a subtree one day ?
> 
	And what if these entries are dispersed over different machines?

	And what if the DSA concerned is like ours where one can store
movie clips, web pages, etc?

	one cannot talk of logs and replay - one has to deal with
distributed transaction resource locking and make that bullet and bomb
proof  to errors first - This is a complex problem that cannot be solved
by a simple solution :-)
	
	regards alan