Solving: samba registry with client programs

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 01:38:07PM -0400, simo wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:24 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote: 
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 03:53:34PM -0400, simo wrote:
> > > > And, I
> > > > don't think that registry smb.conf modifications are
> > > > so frequent that this really hurts. The fsyncs on the
> > > > registry.tdb are probably much, much more expensive.
> > > 
> > > True, but I was not too much concerned with performance, rather rewrite
> > > of the file over an over, if someone wants to check changes with
> > > something like inotify it would get multiple wakeups all over.
> > 
> > We rewrite the registry over and over too, so I think this
> > problem exists already today.
> 
> Yes and we drafted a plan to fix it by using 2 tdb files a while ago, I
> guess we could accept the penalty now and then solve the problem at the
> same time once we get around to fix the registry general issues.

Sorry, I did not understand your message. Does this mean
that you bless the smb.conf text copy of the registry that
Stef proposed?

Volker

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