tdb_chainlock() in tdb1, tdb2 and tdb_compat ?

Rusty Russell rusty at ozlabs.org
Wed May 9 23:33:18 MDT 2012


On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:08:19 +0200, Christian Ambach <ambi at samba.org> wrote:
> > Agree. Lets break back compatibility.
> > We need TDB2, but we need a the best TDB2 we can get.
> > Lets not cripple it by imposing semantics or restrictions from the
> > TDB1 API we want to break from.
> >
> > A new api, a new namespace, a new clean start.
> 
> I would push the patch early next week if there are not vetos.
> It disables the building with TDB2 by default so we should not silently 
> stumble across clashing APIs until the TDB2 API has been sorted out.

Or we could just remove tdb1, as I planned, which will force us to fix
any issues.

The API confusion which caused Volker to start this thread is due to my
slow transition.

Cheers,
Rusty.


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