Comment 21 for bug 8392

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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 20:26:23 +0000
From: Doug Winter <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [debian-openldap] Bug#272984: slapd: checkpoint directive missed
 from bdb backend

Stephen Frost wrote:
> The point is that the database *can* be recovered unless something worse
> has happened (such as file system corruption). Just because you can't
> open it immediately upon reboot doesn't mean the data has been lost.
> Torsten, perhaps we could add something to the README about how to use a
> Berkley db, with some URLs to more documentation.

Something in the README saying either put in a checkpoint, or this is
how to recover after a crash would save a lot of people some grief I
think. For a lot of us, performance is unimportant compared to data
integrity ;)

doug.

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