Re: ldapadd with mpeg video

["Mark Wilcox" <mark@mjwilcox.com>]

Hi,
I'm fairly sure that will work, but are you sure you want to store a full
MPEG video in your LDAP server?

That's going to take up quite a bit of space, can't be indexed, etc. and
might negatively affect performance (in particular the initial writing of
the entry).

You might be better having an URL that points to a Web site that contains
the file.

Just because you CAN save binary data to an LDAP server, doesn't mean you
always SHOULD. ;)

Just my 2 cents.

Mark



-----Original Message-----
From: Sunil Ghelani <ghelani@cs.umn.edu>
To: Randy Fay <rfay@peakss.com>
Cc: openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org <openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 2:24 PM
Subject: ldapadd with mpeg video


>Hi,
>i was hoping someone could guide me on this one....
>to add an entry which contains a mpegvideo attribute, is it permissible to
>add using the ldapadd -b option and giving the full pathname for the file
>in the ldif format , i.e.
>mpegvideo= /..../abc.mpeg
>
>or is there some other way one can include video file attributes ?
>thanks in advance,
>sunil ghelani
>
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