[Samba] Compareing backends

[Paul Gienger]

>>but as for the reasons for LDAP, some of 
>>us need fully networkable and redundant directory information 
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>And if you don't need these things why no use the TDB backend?
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Good question.  A lot of people seem to be biting off a lot more than 
they need to using ldap on single server setups, etc. and no plans to 
add servers to need the distributed nature.  Also, others seem to be 
trying to go the other way to use nfs when something distributed (like 
ldap) is needed very much.

>>I've seen the complaints about berkely-db being shoddy, that should take it 
>>out of the equation.
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>Berkeley Db is very stable.  We've been using OpenLDAP since 1.2.x and
>ONCE had a corrupted database; probably my fault.
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As have I ... not seen it... er... bad is my grammer.  Anyway, I was 
merely trying to say to those that seem to favor overly complex 
solutions (sql) 'go ahead, here's the door, don't forget to write, I'm 
sure your trip will be lovely'   The great thing is that somebody 
apparently had the same hangup with berkeley and did their own thing.  
Feel free to try it out and let us know how it goes.  Maybe if it's good 
enough the rest of the world will follow, but for ldap it seems like 
killing a cockroach with a nuke. (which wouldn't work very well, if 
we're to believe the old saying about nuclear holocaust and cockroaches)

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