Da Rock wrote: > 1. cn=config and friends: Looking at the schema and methods used to implement > this config type, I got to considering that I could (in theory) name my > databases such as olcDatabase=MyLDAPDatabase (or the like), rather than > bdb/hdb/mdb. I then found that I couldn't and then looked it up to see why - I > found that it had a naming restriction, but not why. Aside from possible > limits within the programming as it stands now, is there some semantical issue > why this is the case? Wouldn't possibly be easier to determine which database > is which if the administrator was able to name them as they wish? Attribute 'olcDatabase' simply defines the type of the database. This is clearly defined in slapd-config(5). > 2. mdb: I know this is the way we're expected to go with ldap now, but what is > the point of a db that can't grow as needed? You can raise the limit later when needed and your filesystem has still enough space. Ciao, Michael.
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