Re: bdb backend - reliable or not?

["Dieter Kluenter" <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org> writes:

> Matthew Hardin wrote:
>>> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
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>>> (...)
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>> [...]

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> Although it sounds great, lots of posts on this group prove quite the
> contrary - there are problems with recovery with bdb backends, and for
> lots of people it takes a couple of crashes to get a good setup.

There are no problems with slapd. If a server shutdown occurs, the
transaction logs of bdb might not have been written to disk, thus a
inconstency in transaction logs is noticed. Propper configuration of
slapd.conf might prevent this.   

-Dieter

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