Antw: cn=config and mdb questions

["Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>]

>>> Da Rock <openldap-technical@herveybayaustralia.com.au> schrieb am 08.12.2014 um
06:05 in Nachricht <54853198.1000404@herveybayaustralia.com.au>:
> Aside from other issues (which haven't really been solved... just 
> possibly worked around :/), I've been doing some tinkering and have 
> raised some questions which I'm hoping will have answers to.
> 
> 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 

Do you know the difference between a name and a type?

Basically you cannot name your "database" at all; you can order your databases and select where to store it (file names).

> 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?
> 
> 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? It seems rather 
> limiting (and old school - remember early unix programming on the old 
> IBM mainframes and DOS for the PC's later with the 640k limit), so why 
> the push in this direction? Or is it expected that this will be resolved 
> in the future?
> 
> Cheers