Adding Own Partition Suffix Documentation
Here:
http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/1.0/14-basic-configuration-tasks.html#1.4.Basicconfigurationtasks-Addingyourownpartition%2528suffix%2529
says the following in the beginning:
In ApacheDS entries are stored in partitions, each partition contains
a complete entry tree. Multiple partitions may exist, the entry trees
they contain are disconnected to each other.
Should it be stated like this?
At a minimum we need to change:
FROM]
are disconnected to each other
TO]
are disconnected from each other.
Personally I prefer:
[SUGGESTION] Partitions contain mutually exclusive sets of entries.
I think this sentence is clear.
In ApacheDS a set of entries
forming a directory tree
is contained in partition.
The root of the directory tree is the partition.
No. A partition is not the root of a directory tree. A partition is like
a mounted file system
If a file system is mounted at the root so that all files in the file
system are visible, then is it the same?
It sounds like a partition could be a proxy to an entry in an other
directory. So the proxy would point to an entry that is not at the
root of the directory tree that contains the entry, and in this case
the partition would not be the root of the real directory tree?
Although from the point of view of the DirContext attaching to
ApacheDS's partition y, partition y is the root right? We can't
go any higher than y?
Or will ApacheDS enable hopping above the entry y, with retrieval of
other entries from the parents of entry y?
: it has a name, which is the suffix, but it
describe all the entries it contains. By extension, when we are talking
about "partition x=y", that means "the partition which suffix is x=y".
ApacheDS comes with 3 partitions (Also referred to as partition
suffixes) by default:
cn=schema
ou=system
dc=example, dc=org
Are these all the root of their corresponding directory tree?
That's correct (and I think we can add it in 1.5 doco : 1.0 does not
have a cn=schema partition)
I'll be glad to update these, just point me to the source.
Just click on the top right little grey icon of each page on the web
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we can add you to the list of people allowed to update the
documentation. Just tell us.
OK - I'll try it out. Thanks.
- Ole
Emmanuel
