Gratuitous advice: files vs. DBs & referential integrity

[Jeremy Allison]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 
> So, Luke, to you I suggest that you use TDB for the Samba SAM DB and
> that you (or someone else) write a TDB dump/load tool so that others
> (those who complain!) can write their own flat-file->Samba SAM TDB
> maintenance system, ala NIS.

Yep - I agree. This is something I've been planning for a
bit. I'd like to extend tdb a bit first to allow for
checksums on non-atomic updates (so an opener can detect
if the tdb db is corrupt).

Jeremy.

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