Am Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009 18:29:55 schrieb hyc@openldap.org:

Full_Name: Howard Chu Version: 2.4.16 OS: Linux URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (80.67.104.102) Submitted by: hyc

Some ideas that came out of discussions at the Ubuntu Developer Summit this week...

It would be nice for pcache to detect when connectivity to the remote server has been lost. In that case, cache expiration should be stopped, and the cache contents should remain intact until connectivity is restored.

Yes that sound reasonable. It's probably also worth to think about a mechanism to explicitly set pcache to "offline" mode. That way on a client machine a hook could be provided for e.g. NetworkManager to bring pcache to offline mode immediately when the network goes offline. That mechanism could either be offered through back-config (back-monitor as for readonly?) and/or through the nssov Socket as that would most probably be the main user of this disconnected pcache mode.

Also, when connectivity is restored, pcache should explicitly refresh all the entries it currently holds, rather than allowing them to be immediately expired.