[PATCH] Activate partitions module

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Jul 11 04:06:25 GMT 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 23:55 -0400, simo wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 12:18 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 08:06 -0400, simo wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 11:37 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > > This patch activates the partitions module, which is already in the
> > > > Samba4 tree. 
> > > > 
> > > > As previously described, the partitions module creates multiple
> > > > databases under our ldap base, and limits searches to one database at a
> > > > time.  It also makes it easier to point some parts of the DIT at a
> > > > remote LDAP server.
> > > 
> > > I think there is still much to do on this, please do not activate it by
> > > default.
> > 
> > I've spent the last week working full-time on fixing the LSA and SAMR
> > tests to pass against Samba4, and I've written new tests to check basic
> > partition behaviour.  I'm happy to write more tests, but I need
> > something more specific than 'I think there is still much more to this'
> > to aim at.  Do you have any specific concerns I can turn my attention
> > to?
> 
> We need to start writing tests against w2k3 to explore how searches
> behave, and make sure we answer the same way.

I'll start extending the ldap.js test.  Any particular hints?

> Make sure we do that even when controls are involved and make sure we
> behave correctly when cross-partition searches are involved.

I'll probably need some help here.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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