Proposals for idmap backend redesign [was Re: svn commit: samba r16822 - in trunk/source/include: .]

[Gautier, B (Bob)]

> This way we can
> 
> (a) have drop replacements for persistent storage
> (b) have a tunable expiring cache layer that is reused by all.
> 
> Sound reasonable?  I will volunteer to do the initial 
> redesign work if everyone agrees.

Yes please!  I'd really love to see a caching layer in idmap that
expires entries properly.  If you can do negative caching too that would
be ideal.

Bob Gautier
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