On 8/2/21 11:00 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: >>>> Michael Ströder <[email protected]> schrieb am 02.08.2021 um 09:57 in > Nachricht <[email protected]>: >> On 8/2/21 8:06 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: >>>>>> Michael Ströder <[email protected]> schrieb am 31.07.2021 um 18:05 > in >>> Nachricht <[email protected]>: >>>> As far as I understood the MDB disk format changed. So the MDB files >>>> have to be re-created (either by simply removing/replicating or >>>> slapcat/slapadd). Right? >>> >>> AFAIK; Sleepycat DB could do that conversion on the fly. >> >> AFAICS the DB layout is application-specific. So there was also no way >> to let Berkeley-DB do this "on the fly". > > Of course Berkely DB cannot upgrade the MDB database; I was talking > about the layout versions of Berkeley DB. I did not misunderstand you. I meant that Berkeley-DB could not do automagic upgrades of its files in case the application-specific format changes.
IIRC in former times with back-bdb and back-hdb there was also sometimes the need to reload BDB files because the slapd-specific layout changed. Ciao, Michael.
