[ROADMAP] Catalyst's focus on Samba

[Stefan Metzmacher]

Hi Andrew,

> Scale
> -----
> 
> Tied up in performance work is a desire to have samba scale more, to
> serve more user and hold more groups/group members.  The direction of
> this work is less certain, but having broken the back of the 'too many
> links melts Samba' issue, I'm sure we will be asked to do more here.  
> 
> Specific possibilities include LMDB and a GUID-based index scheme.

If you play with lmdb, please try to understand how OpenLDAP does the
indexing. I think we should also make use of the virtual databases
of lmdb, so that we can keep the index records away from the real objects.
We could also have the different partitions within a single lmdb file.

metze

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