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Re: cn=config and mdb questions



Da Rock wrote:
> 1. cn=config and friends: Looking at the schema and methods used to implement
> this config type, I got to considering that I could (in theory) name my
> databases such as olcDatabase=MyLDAPDatabase (or the like), rather than
> bdb/hdb/mdb. I then found that I couldn't and then looked it up to see why - I
> found that it had a naming restriction, but not why. Aside from possible
> limits within the programming as it stands now, is there some semantical issue
> why this is the case? Wouldn't possibly be easier to determine which database
> is which if the administrator was able to name them as they wish?

Attribute 'olcDatabase' simply defines the type of the database.
This is clearly defined in slapd-config(5).

> 2. mdb: I know this is the way we're expected to go with ldap now, but what is
> the point of a db that can't grow as needed?

You can raise the limit later when needed and your filesystem has still enough
space.

Ciao, Michael.


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