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

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Gautier, B (Bob) wrote:
>> 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.

By negative caching, I assume you mean for backends that
cannot allocate on their own like idmap_ad.  Something like
a "I already looked for this SID and it has no uid" cache entry?






cheers, jerry
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