Andrzej Jan Taramina wrote: > Hallvard: >> Only a few backends in slapd use what you'd normally call a "database". >> Do you have a suggestion for where it could have made clearer, and >> a brief wording for it? > > Backend storage mechanism.
This does not say much. In the way I understand your wording this definition is plain wrong since it lacks the functional model of a database. And that's exactly what's missing in your understanding. >> The point of cn=config is that you can update it over the LDAP protocol >> without stopping slapd. Therefore the configuration must be LDAP >> entries. > > Which can be handy at times...just not for doing iterative custom schema > development. ;-) I usually do schema development in a dedicated test slapd instance by simply editing schema text files included with slapd.conf. I'd use cn=config only if there's a real need for dynamic re-configuration of a long-running slapd instance for minimizing downtime. Ciao, Michael.
