openldap-devel October 2009

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by Howard Chu 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

Some of these should go onto the roadmap or TODO list. Just scribbling them down here before I forget. Had a chat with tridge and abartlet about the LDAP TXN support they're looking for with Samba4. One of their requirements was being able to do reads inside the TXN, and that is explicitly not supported by the LDAP TXN draft. But after talking a bit more about how they do things in LDB, we decided to take the same approach here - LDB only allows one writer when a TXN is active. We can write a (global) overlay that gives this same behavior, and then not have to worry about any of the other TXN details. While thinking about back-mdb, I realized that since we're mapping storage to memory we don't really need a traditional disk-DB structure. Instead we can just manage the space as its own heap and use in-memory structures like AVL trees and such. I've been thinking about extending our current AVL library to a T-tree implementation. Further reading along those lines led me to Cache-Sensitive T-trees (CST-Trees) which also have the important property of being friendly to CPU cacheline sizes, and so behaving a lot better in multi-processor systems. This is a pretty generic project - if anyone's been looking for a relatively self-contained bit of work they could contribute, this would be ideal. You can get the paper here: http://ids.snu.ac.kr/wiki/CST-Trees:_Cache_Sensitive_T-Trees (Note that these things are only good because they can fit all the keys into a single node - i.e., they only have their most desirable properties when keys are small. We could certainly use them for the id2entry index, and maybe a few others, but in the general case we need to be able to use pointers to arbitrary data as keys.) ITS#6301 also fed into this search, but I think we just want to use threaded AVL here instead of the Red-Black tree code. That would shrink the size of the patch down considerably, which would also be a good thing. Again, anyone looking for a relatively small project, this one is pretty straightforward. Also a completely fringe topic, but still interesting - we've got OpenLDAP running well on Android now; on a G1 phone. But it's still just a set of command-line tools. UnboundID showed off their Java LDAP SDK in a simple app also running on Android. A combination of these two would make an extremely powerful package: Develop a canned slapd config that uses syncrepl to sync with a remote LDAP address book. Use proxied multimaster, to allow local changes to be propagated back to the remote directory. Write a java app that uses LDAP for the G1's contact book backend instead of the SQLite ****stuff that it's currently using. Accomplishing this will necessitate writing a few GUI menus for configuring the handful of variables needed for the slapd config. This also brings me to another topic - adopting features from OpenDS... They expose a cn=Tasks tree which can be used for submitting tasks via LDAP. Currently we expose our runqueue under cn=Monitor but that's only read-only. It would be nice to be able to submit/schedule/trigger tasks on the fly... In particular, it would be nice to have a defined task for triggering a syncrepl refresh. The Android slapd config would be a refreshOnly syncrepl consumer. It would also have a hidden back-ldap refreshOnly consumer replicating from its local database and writing to the remote master. This way both push and pull would be under control of the Android device. (You have no idea how much of a bill you can rack up with fully automatic background synching. It's much better to have this under complete user control.) The GUI would just submit a request to cn=Tasks to trigger a synch. OpenDS also has matching rules defined for comparing timestamp attributes to "current server time". This is extremely handy for a lot of things. Again, this is a small, self-contained project that should be simple for someone to jump in on. More ideas later... -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/

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Re: commit: ldap/servers/slapd/overlays pcache.c
by Howard Chu 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

ando(a)OpenLDAP.org wrote: > Update of /repo/OpenLDAP/pkg/ldap/servers/slapd/overlays > > Modified Files: > pcache.c 1.196 -> 1.197 > > Log Message: > make sure members are not used uninitialized Perhaps this should have just been changed to ch_calloc instead of ch_malloc... -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/

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RE24 call for testing
by Quanah Gibson-Mount 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Please test RE24 for 2.4.19 preparation. Thanks! --Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Engineer Zimbra, Inc -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration

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advertising compiled-but-not-instantiated overlays
by Aaron Richton 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

2.4.18 releases slapo-sssvlv. Now my servers are advertising VLV/sortKeyList as supportedControls. Thing is, I don't specify "overlay sssvlv" so they're not really "supported" in any meaningful way. Searches that specify the controls just error out fast. I'm not particularly inclined to enable the feature, but I'm not sure if somebody else might want it in their installation, so I'd prefer to keep it compiled in. This is the case with all overlays across the board. For example, configure --enable-modules --enable-overlays=mod and syncprov isn't advertised in test000. But if you just ./configure and run test000, you see 1.3.6.1.4.1.4203.1.9.1.1 despite the fact that there's no way test000 could provide LDAP Sync as configured. (Recall that --enable-syncprov defaults to yes.) To me it's counterintuitive and "false advertising": unless there's an "overlay syncprov" in slapd.1.conf, I don't see why that should show up in test000. Thoughts?

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openldap-devel October 2009