--On Friday, August 26, 2005 7:09 PM +0200 Hallvard B Furuseth
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quanah Gibson-Mount writes:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
slapadd -q has been entirely safe for me as long. The point of that
paragraph is that if you kill slapadd, or an error occurs during the
slapadd, you will need to wipe the database and start over. Apart from
that, it is completely safe. ;)
OK, then I suggest making its description a little less scary:-)
Second, I'd like this option to be split: Assuming -q is safe to use
when creating a database from scratch which will be deleted if slapadd
fails, I'd like to turn off database checking but turn on LDIF checking.
I suppose that would mean adding either an option which checks the LDIF
despite -q, or an option which only turns off database checking and not
LDIF checking.
I disagree. Slapadd -q as it is now can still be used safely with -c,
which is entirely sufficient.
That's another issue. -c says what to do when an error is detected.
I'm suggesting better control over which error detection to disable.
slapadd -q was added because of research done on how and why large
database loads took forever, and adding new checks to make it take
even longer are entirely counter intuitive.
I was not suggesting any new checking. I'm talking about better
control over which checking to disable. -q disables both database
checks and LDIF checks, I want the option of disabling only database
checks. Maybe someone else could have use for a way to disable only
LDIF checks, if they trust their LDIF but need database checking.
Okay, like additional flags to slapadd to re-enable some stuff. ;)
That sounds fine to me. ;)
Though actually I would like an option for more LDIF error checking
too: Adding whatever check ldapadd does which is convenient to add
to slapadd, including a "verify" function in overlays like "unique",
to be called for each entry after the database is built and indexed.
Hm... Yeah, I have some reason to be curious about something like this as
well, for some testing purposes.
--Quanah
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