RE: Occassional index corrupts

["Vito Chan" <vito.chan@hk.so-net.com.hk>]

Sorry for asking stupid question. I have looked into the Openldap
website but can't find that which release is the latest one, 2.0.26 or
2.0.7 ??

Can I also ask which back db has less index problem ?? As I saw in the
forum that many people here seem have lots of critism against GDBM.

Best Regards,

Vito

-----Original Message-----
From: Howard Chu [mailto:hyc@highlandsun.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:52 PM
To: 'Vito Chan'; openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: RE: Occassional index corrupts


2.0.7 is very old. The last known index corruption bug was fixed in
2.0.26. You don't need to upgarde to 2.1 right away, but you should get
the latest 2.0 (2.0.27 now).

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
  http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
  Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Vito Chan
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 7:20 AM
> To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Occassional index corrupts
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> We have a openldap server (2.0.7) running on redhat linux 6.2. Our 
> servers have frequent read/write and we find that some records cannot 
> be searched exactly. (We have build an index uid eq)
>
> e.g. we can search for uid=*abc while not uid=abc. The problem can be 
> solved by running slapcat but the problem will happen soon after the 
> ldap has a few more writes. This problem cause us so much trouble 
> since most of the user cannot search their account occassionaly and
> we cannot
> always rebuild the index since it will cause so much service
> interruption.
>
> I read from the mailing list that some of the problems may be caused 
> by gdbm backend (We are now using gdbm) and it will solved by
> upgrading the
> openldap to 2.1.x and using bdb backend. But I am not sure whether it
> really works since these problems occur randomly,
>
> Can any expert here can share their experience on this problem and how

> they can solve this ?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Vito
>
>
>