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Stefan (metze) Metzmacher metze at samba.org
Thu Dec 31 07:27:42 MST 2009


tridge at samba.org schrieb:
> Hi Metze,
> 
>  > Have you added the RMD_FLAGS, so that we use DELETED=1 only for
>  > performance reasons? 
> 
> no, because at the moment there is just one flag, and that is covered
> by DELETED=1. If/when we need more flags we can add RMD_FLAGS, and
> treat absence of RMD_FLAGS as meaning that it is zero. I don't want
> redundent information in the on-disk form, or we will just need code
> to cope with the case where RMD_FLAGS and DELETED are not consistent.

It could be that we should not return the value (DELETED=1), but
the isPresent flag is true. I assume that can happen when the target
is deleted and we have the recycle bin feature enabled.

>  > So that we can have DELETED=1, also for the backlinks and link-less
>  > DN attributes.
> 
> For backlinks of link-less DN attributes we can test for the '@'
> prefix, much like we use for internal objects.
> 
> I haven't implemented the link-less DN backlink handling yet, but I
> don't think that is essential for a merge. 

yep, that's not a problem for the merge.

metze


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