John Morrissey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:18:10PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: >> --On Tuesday, November 11, 2008 4:35 PM -0500 John Morrissey >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Instead of slapcat(8)/slapadd(8)ding the old databases, we're removing >>> the existing databases and allowing slapd(8) to delta-syncrepl a copy >>> from scratch. Ironing out this use case is especially important for us >>> since we expect to be adding a number of consumers in the coming months >>> and would obviously prefer to bring them online without having to shut >>> down any other slapd instances for slapcat(8)ting. >> Why would you have to shut down a server to slapcat it? Hot slapcatting >> has been supported for a long time. > > Right, slapcat's man page indicates it's always safe to run against the bdb > backend, but I suspect that's referring more to read concurrency and not > necessarily the generation of a consistent, point-in-time snapshot of the > database.
Consistency is preserved at entry level. If there is consistency needed across several related entry this cannot be guaranteed with pure LDAPv3. Ciao, Michael.
