ntdb in Samba?

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 05:41:18PM +0100, Michael Adam wrote:
> On 2015-03-12 at 17:18 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 04:28:21PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > > If we decide it can go, there is some cleanup potential:
> > > 
> > >  406 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 49030 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > See
> > > 
> > > https://git.samba.org/?p=vl/samba.git/.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/wip
> > 
> > Ah, btw, in case someone actually has "use ntdb = yes" set,
> > I'd propose to provide a ntdb2tdb tool in 4.2.
> 
> This is exactly the case we need to treat.
> Personally, not having used ntdb yet myself,
> I am happy with the change in general, would
> still carefully look at all the patches of course.
> Others may think differently.

We need to carefully communicate it, but I assume there's only very few
ntdb users that can't just rejoin and do a get/setlocalsid. I'd argue
that for those users a manual transfer should be sufficient. I'd rather
not carry ntdb in 4.3 just for upgrade purposes.

Volker

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