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Re: ldbm migrations



It was kind of legacied to me, and I heard from the previous guy that
bdb had too much disk overhead.  However, I am giving a hard
consideration to, at least, moving the master to the more reliable
(transactional) backend.  The migration just doesn't sound fun.

On 5/25/05, Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:39 PM -0400 matthew sporleder
> <msporleder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > How does moving from an older version of BerkleyDB to a newer version
> > affect ldbm backends?  Will I have to do some sort of db_upgrade, or
> > will the newer library not affect ldbm?  I don't see any berkley
> > libaries linked when I try ldd on slapd.
> 
> Why would you use LDBM if you are moving to a newer version of OpenLDAP?
> There are many many wonderful reasons to move to a more sane and stable
> backend like BDB (the suggested backend for OpenLDAP 2.1 or greater).
> 
> --Quanah