Gratuitous advice: files vs. DBs & referential integrity

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at samba.org
Fri Jan 28 22:08:10 GMT 2000


ohhh.  will that be behind the existing tdb api, so i don't have to worry
about it?

On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> 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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