[SAMBA4] Where to on the partitions module?

simo idra at samba.org
Sat Jul 29 07:00:33 GMT 2006


On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 08:08 +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
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> Andrew Bartlett schrieb:
> > I understand your reasoning in wanting a single file (everything in one
> > file was a founding tennent in ldb), but given the number of ldb
> > databases we already have, I simply don't see the marginal value.  On
> > the otherhand, to gain correct semantics with a single database, we will
> > have to write complex extra code to manipulate each search, to rewrite
> > the DN of every database entry. 
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> I think that multiple files are ok for now.
> 
> I was thinking of adding named virtuell databases to tdb.
> So make it possible to have more than one key table
> and make it possible for one record to have 2 keys.
> bdb has also such a feature, so It should be possible to have
> mutliple views of the data in the tdb, and the default
> sees all entries.

Interesting idea, do you think we can do all this without any loss in
performance?
tdb is also our internal database used for speed sensitive tasks.

Simo.

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