Re: Increase size of id2entry.bdb in DB_CONFIG ?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Saturday, July 07, 2012 5:14 AM -0700 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:

> Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> > > Le 06/07/2012 16:45, Quanah Gibson-Mount a Ãcrit :
> > > > > Jul  6 09:49:44 ldap3 slapd[95890]: bdb_db_open: DB_CONFIG for suffix
> > > > > "dc=esiee,dc=fr" has changed.
> > > > > Jul  6 09:49:44 ldap3 slapd[95890]: Performing database recovery to
> > > > > activate new settings.
> > > > > Jul  6 09:49:45 ldap3 slapd[95890]: slapd starting
> > > >
> > > > That is exactly what you want to see.  Slapd noticed that DB_CONFIG
> > > > changed, so it is running database recovery to apply the new changes.
> > I was convinced than DB_CONFIG settings could not get changed after the
> > initial database creation.
>
> Wrong.
>
> > Did that change at some point ? Also, is it
> > true for all settings, or only a subset of available ones ?
>
> All settings can be changed; that has always been the case. In the past
> you needed to manually run db_recover to make the changes take effect. In
> 2.4 back-bdb/hdb detects the change and does the recovery automatically.

This has been the case since OpenLDAP 2.3, IIRC ;)

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
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