Re: refresh the entire directory

[Jens Vagelpohl <jens@digicool.com>]

like i said in the previous post, you can reduce the downtime to the time it
takes to copy a completed backend over into the right place after creating
is with slapadd.

jens

> Bing-Du> Your approach sounds like a brand new idea to me.  How many entries
> Bing-Du> are their in your directory?  How long does it take starting from
> Bing-Du> stopping the daemon till bring it back up after update?  I guess
> Bing-Du> during this period, the directory is not available for being looked
> Bing-Du> up, right?
> 
> For some years, I used to build from scratch daily, too, but switched to the
> modification route in order to keep ldap up.  Previously, I'd only used ldap
> for whitepages references, and didn't think that it being down for some
> minutes
> a day was a particular problem, but I'm planning to use it for campus-wide
> authentication, maybe for mail routing, and maybe more, so shutting it down is
> not an option.
>