[OpenAFS] re: my afs wish list

[Leif Johansson]

Derek Atkins wrote:

>Leif Johansson <leifj@it.su.se> writes:
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>>Douglas E. Engert wrote:
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>>>Be careful with the wish list, it sounds like you are redesigning DCE and DFS.
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>>It would not be terribly difficult to have (say) an _optional_ pts
>>server which acted
>>as an ldap frontend. This would not affect people who want to run
>>traditional AFS
>>cells. Love is looking at this. It would help a lot of people and it
>>wouldn't hurt
>>anyone. Clearly (?) this is staying well away from the DCE rathole.
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>Considering that every fileserver access performs a getCPS(), having LDAP
>behind the PTServer might really slow down the system.
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>>       Cheers Leif
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>-derek
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It is a myth that ldap is slow. If you know what you are doing accessing 
your db-
files through ldap or from disk doesn't matter much in terms of speed. A 
well-
managed openldap installation will reply from in-memory cache so the 
only over-
head is the network itself.

     Cheers Leif