Re: BDB Corruption problems

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Leigh Porter wrote:
> Hiya All,
>
> I have been having some database corruption issues for the past few 
> months. Here are the details:
>
> I run
>
> @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.2.26 (Jul 15 2005 14:05:34) $
>
> root@server1.odb/database/openldap/openldap-data# db4_verify 
> PrimaryUser.bdb
> db_verify: Page 2: out-of-order key at entry 2
> db_verify: Page 2: out-of-order key at entry 5
>
> ......
>
> There is similar output on all dbd files. What does this mean?
This doesn't mean anything. OpenLDAP 2.1-2.2 back-bdb used a custom sort 
function for the databases, the standard BerkeleyDB tools don't work 
with custom sort functions. In OpenLDAP 2.3 the database format has 
changed so that custom sort functions are no longer needed.

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