Question regarding Samba4 updates

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 08:43 +0200, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am 28.08.2012 01:26, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
> > We do intend this tool to be safe to run, particularly when the system
> > is operating, but running it before starting Samba gives us a chance to
> > fix things before Samba starts.
> 
> Is it a good idea to have "samba-tool dbcheck --cross-ncs --fix" in the 
> startup script of samba4, before starting samba? Just to make sure that 
> everything is Ok.

It's an interesting idea, but it really shouldn't be required, and even
a non-fix pass can be a little slow.  It's a bit like the age-old
question of how often you should check your filesystem.  Running it
online at a quiet time and reporting the results would seem reasonable
however. 

Andrew Bartlett

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