Subtree renames and linked attributes

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 17:46 +1000, Luke Howard wrote:
> >I suppose we could make all DNs in attributes be stored as GUIDs and
> >resolved at search time?
> 
> Hmm, didn't I mention this years ago? :-)

Yeah, and I remember thinking 'this is going to bite us'...

That said, the path we took back then did get us this far.  

> For performance/historical reasons many directories that support
> referential integrity use integral 32-bit entry IDs rather than
> GUIDs for this.
> 
> In the case the entry is not in a local DIB, the entry pointed
> to by the entry ID might be a proxy object ("phantom") that
> caches the DN, GUID, SID of the real entry. A separate process
> can then be responsible for maintaining cache consistency.

Interesting.  Thanks!

Andrew Bartlett

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