OpenLDAP and Samba4

[Gémes Géza]

2013-04-20 20:28 keltezéssel, Howard Chu írta:
>
>> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:04:46 +0200
>> From: G?mes G?za <geza at kzsdabas.hu>
>
>> 2013-04-20 12:17 keltez?ssel, Luke Howard ?rta:
>>> > On 20/04/2013, at 7:32 AM, G?mes G?za <geza at kzsdabas.hu> wrote:
>>> >
>>>>>> Sorry to express my own opinion as not a samba team member or
>>>>>> regular
> developer (few small patches doesn't count), but instead of trying to use
> OpenLDAP as a backend for samba, wouldn't be useful to try to use 
> tdb/ldb as
> the backend for OpenLDAP and to see what other changes are needed in 
> order to
> have it listen on 389/tcp and 636/tcp on behalf of Samba, something 
> like the
> s3fs setup?
>>>> That's not a bad idea: enforce the ?business logic? (i.e. SAM
> constraints, etc) in the actual backend database itself, rather than 
> in the
> layer between the protocol and the backend database. (We did something
> similar, but much simpler, with the NetInfo backend for OpenLDAP some 
> years ago.)
>>>>
>>>> However: Howard and the OpenLDAP team have invested a lot in backend
> database design (see back-mdb) and I would expect they'd like to leverage
> this, not just the protocol front-end.
>>> >
>>> > -- Luke
>
>> Switch from tdb to mdb perhaps?
>
> (mdb is now called LMDB, to avoid confusion with Microsoft Access mdb 
> etc.)
>
> This has been discussed privately. It is unfortunately not a slam dunk 
> today due to concerns about 32 bit compatibility. Since LMDB works by 
> directly referencing data thru a memory map, it can't manage more than 
> ~2GB on a 32 bit machine. This has not been a concern to us in 
> OpenLDAP because most server deployments are on 64 bit hardware these 
> days. The notable exception, smartphones, rarely have databases bigger 
> than a few MB in size.
>
> We recognize that LMDB may not be practical for some 32 bit embedded 
> servers that Samba targets. We anticipate that 64 bit ARM will replace 
> these devices soon and the problem will go away.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Geza Gemes
>
>
Personally I don't expect an LMDB backed SamDB in the near future (due 
to complex requirements), at least not before arm64 will become a commodity.

Cheers

Geza Gemes