For now, I have elected to use bdb as the backend as its working great with my testing.
BTW - with bdb as the backend instead of hdb, I the same test as I was before for using syncrepl and compared the two database to the master. They all checked out, so replication still looks fine in either of these scenarios for me (bdb 4.2 or 4.3 w/ bdb as the backend).
--Quanah
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