[Samba] Increasing database size limit

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 02:10:18PM +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:17:24AM +0100, mathias dufresne wrote:
> > In parallel Oliver Liebel tells around 2 months ago he'll be able to find
> > funds to develop LMDB backend (in some mail with title "s4 ldb tdb limits")
> > which could solve the DB size limitation. And the company I'm working for
> > is still discussing internally (without me :p) about investing for same
> > development (and others).
> 
> I finished the port of the ldb_cache module (I'll push it to github when
> I finish more tests for this area..), so the last part missing from the
> mdb ldb back end is indexing and of course even more tests..
> 
> For indexing I'm still not sure if I should just reuse exactly what the
> tdb backend does, maybe yes for the prototype so I can get more testing
> from others and play with other ideas later...

This might be completely naive, but regarding the data
format and indexing, what does OpenLDAP do? They have to
solve a very similar problem.

Volker

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