Re: Filesystem & backend options for embedded openldap

[Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Am Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:02:02 -0800
schrieb Bruce Edge <bruce.edge@gmail.com>:

> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
> > Bruce Edge wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Peter Lambrechtsen
> >> <plambrechtsen@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Or perhaps TinyLdap? http://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/
> >>>
> >>> Also FreeRadius (if your app's support Radius and LDAP) supports
> >>> a myriad of
> >>> backend databases.
> >>>
> >> Hmm, very interesting. I was not aware of this project.
> >> My concern is that there's been very little activity on the
> >> project in recent years.
> >>
> >> Is there no simple, reliable, backend config for openldap?
> >>
> >> I'm not concerned with speed, just reliability and data integrity.
> >>
> >> I'd settle for a 10x performance penalty for data integrity.
> >
> > You could give back-ldif a try. It certainly will not perform well,
> > but it's so simple that data corruption wouldn't be an issue.
> 
> I'll give it a try. Thanks.
> 
> Are there no hdb back end settings that accomplish something similar ?
> Or is that back end always going to be vulnerable to ungraceful shut
> downs?

slapd always runs db_recover on any bdb and hdb database, which will
repair any corrupted database if appropriate transaction logs are
available.

-Dieter
 
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