From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8062 invoked by uid 1002); 27 Jun 2003 15:27:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 20374 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2003 15:27:46 -0000 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:27:41 +0200 From: Patrick Kursawe To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030627152741.GA15138@zaphod.anachem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Mail-Followup-To: Patrick Kursawe , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200306250000.00937.tclark@telia.com> <3EFC3735.6040501@ineoconcepts.com> <1056718703.8875.56.camel@tree.rogi.biz> <200306270758.42517.zack@tehunlose.com> <20030627152102.GC1717@pbook.polysynx.foo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030627152102.GC1717@pbook.polysynx.foo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Directory services (was Re: [gentoo-dev] maybe it is time to put portage queries into a database.) X-Archives-Salt: 5766b0f0-2529-416d-911f-ef684221c1bc X-Archives-Hash: 5bbe6ead2565fb21b21d410413dbb3ba --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 05:21:02PM +0200, c.wegener@itcampus.de wrote: [portage in LDAP] > As directory services are optimized for read performance, there are > disadvantages for write access to a directory service. But compared to > the amount of user needing read access to a directory service the > number of write access updates should REALLY small. >=20 > I think your bad experience with LDAP as authentication service may > have to do with misconfiguration or lack of optimization. I wonder how LDAP should have a better performance than rsync? Are there implementations that support compression while transmitting only the delta between entries? I have next to no experience with directory services, so could you please outline a bit further why you think this is better than rsync or a database? Yours sceptically, Patrick=09 --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+/GJtbfJVn0GlZw8RAvkvAJwOXSJ5S7/EJZWGwdldfpmoJRu/IgCeLi0h rPKTjmUOCOlc9cQnfKH5eZc= =5OZG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C--