On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Felix Frank <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Jim Doyle wrote: > > The question begs.... Could you simply do away with the PTSERVER and VLDB >> and put these databases in LDAP ? C-API LDAP client code with kerberos 5 >> support has long been there - so this is an "attainable" idea. >> > > I just recently had a brief chat with someone who tried something similar > (implement a ptserver that is fed directly from LDAP). > His statement was that he ran into a dead end - performance was simply not > good > enough and AFS operations apparently rely on extremely low ptserver > latency. > Anyone who's asked about such a thing I've beaten that point into them. It *is* doable, but you have to optimize (a few of ptserver's operations at least) for speed, or you're going to be sad.
