Status of 64-bit TDB

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:21:36AM -0400, yaberger at ca.ibm.com wrote:
> this might not be the solution for John's problem but I think a TDB 
> defragmenter/shrinker is something that is missing around TDBs.
> 
> Currently, the only way to reduce the size of a TDB is to stop Samba and 
> delete the non-persistant TDBs.

You can always do a tdbbackup of the persistent ones.

> Has it been discussed in the past?
> Is this something that makes sense and would be doable?

Sure. It will need to be coded up very carefully though if
it shall work while the tdb is in use.

Volker
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