[SAMBA4] highestCommitedUSN support
tridge at samba.org
tridge at samba.org
Thu Feb 23 11:02:18 GMT 2006
Andrew,
> One of the early tests is for the presence of the highestCommitedUSN
> attribute. I understand that the ldb_tdb backend already supports
> something like this, so I'm trying to find out how best to access it.
> Having the rootdse module fetch the @BASEINFO record and sequenceNumber
> attribute seems wrong...
Right, sequenceNumber in @BASEINFO is a pretty good match for
highestCommitedUSN.
> Likewise, it would seem the correct opportunity to have each record
> marked with it's correct sequence number.
yep, probably the operational module is the best fit for this, as its
a natural extension of the various timestamp fields that we handle now.
> We probably also need to store suitable details for syncRepl, if we
> are every going to support that.
I haven't looked into whats needed for that
> Anybody feel like coding this up, or at the very least providing some
> hints on how to do sanely?
I'll have a go at this unless you beat me to it.
Cheers, Tridge
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