[SAMBA4] SWAT provisioning broken

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Oct 13 01:35:58 GMT 2006


On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 21:18 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 18:43 +1000, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> > Andrew,
> > 
> >  > This is currently blocking the Samba4 TP3 release.
> > 
> > I've fixed the provisioning speed problem.
> > 
> > Main problem was an interaction between provisioning and existing
> > partitions with a partitions module. The provisioning code tries to
> > wipe the ldb in a 'friendly' way in case processes are already
> > attached to it, by searching for all records and deleting them. This
> > wasn't working with partitions, as searches don't cross partition
> > boundaries. That caused a second provision after the system was
> > already installed to proceed very slowly, as it had to do a lot of
> > work re-indexing the (large!) schema on each record.
> 
> I'm a bit confused.  As the code stood, it did delete the data in the
> partitions.  If it did not, then loading the new records would fail.
> 
> Furthermore, the new code deletes the contents of the 'old' partitions,
> but I'm worried:  If the new provision is configured not to use LDAP
> (for example), we will now go off and wipe the old LDAP server.
> 
> That is why the old code wiped man DB, initialised the partitions
> records, and then wiped the partitions data.

I've changed the code again, to address this.  The main issue is that
the erasure of the partitions occurred *after* the index was added.
I've pushed the index creation to the very end of the provision.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com
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