Re: LDBM or BDB ?

[Ignacio Coupeau <icoupeau@unav.es>]

Kent L. Nasveschuk wrote:

> Can anyone give me some reasons to switch from ldbm to Berkeley bdb for
> LDAP backend? I had such problems getting LDAP to compile with BDB that
> I gave up on it until recently. Now I don't know if it is worth the
> effort to recompile all databases to BDB or leave as is. I have roughly
> 2000 accounts 3 slave LDAP directories and 1 master. These are used
> primarily for Samba authentication.

I recommend you stay a while with ldbm; samba wrotes very few in the 
ldap, so the ldbm may be OK (we have about +29.000 accounts and runs as 
a charm).
The DBD requires a careful tunning, and may be a pain if you don't have 
some experience (look the list :).

Ignacio

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