object removal in samba4

[Pavel Herrmann]

Hi,

On Saturday 04 of June 2011 21:55:44 Matthieu Patou wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After changing the time after tombstoneLifetime to 10 days I had my
> w2k8r2 server purging most of the deleted records.
> After replication it seems that the deletion are not replicated to
> samba4 DC (Windows _don't seems_  to transmit this removal), does it
> means that each DC has to implement the removal of tombstones object
> after X days ?
> 
> Matthieu.

tombstones are used to replicate object deletion (because the replication 
protocol only tracks changes on objects), so for tombstone deletion you would 
need another tombstone-like object, and so forth into an infinite chain.

so yes, tombstones are to be tracked and purged on every DC

Pavel Herrmann