[Fedora-directory-users] Fedora directory Server 7.1 with BDB/MySQL Backend

[David Boreham]

Hariharan R wrote:

>  Fedora DS 7.1  by default supports LDBM database as a backend data 
> store.
>
>  I want to change the backend database to BDB or MySQL.
>
>  How i can make the Fedora DS 7.1 to interface with BDB or MySQL 
> database?

Well let's see...

1. The LDBM/BDB thing is an OpenLDAP-ism. OpenLDAP created the 'BDB' backend
as the new transacted store, leaving the older LDBM code as it was. FDS 
is not OpenLDAP.
It forked from the UMich code in 1995. In FDS the name of the files is 
still 'ldbm' but the
functionality is roughly similar to that of the 'BDB' backend in 
OpenLDAP (at least
as far as having ACID properties and using transactions in BekeleyDB goes).
So you need do absolutely nothing to get 'BDB'.

2. There is no SQL back end for FDS at present. So to change to a MySQL
backend database you'd need to write code.