[Fedora-directory-users] Is it possible to migrate Berkeley 4.2(32bit) based directory to 4.2 (64bit)

[Rich Megginson]

Reinhard Nappert wrote:
> Rich,
>
> I have another question regarding the Berkley 4.2 (32bit) "migration" to
> 4.2 (64 bit):
>
> First of all, the migration process is fine and the new 64 bit Berkley
> DB handles even the old files. The search performance is more or less
> the same as it was before. However, the add/delete operation is not
> good. The performance decreased by 4 times. The entire build process is
> identical (besides the enable-64bit switch). Can you shed some light on
> that? Do you have the same experience?
>   
We have not done comparative performance testing for write operations 
between 32-bit and 64-bit, and I'm not sure what could be causing that 
behavior.
> Thanks,
> -Reinhard
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Megginson
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:12 PM
> To: General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project.
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Is it possible to migrate Berkeley
> 4.2(32bit) based directory to 4.2 (64bit)
>
> Reinhard Nappert wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know, if that works?
>>
>>     
> Are you talking about the migration script migrate-ds-admin.pl?  If so,
> then yes.  You will first have to export your databases to ldif e.g. for
> a Fedora DS 1.0.4 installation:
> cd /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-instance/db
> ../db2ldif -n userRoot -a `pwd`/userRoot.ldif ../db2ldif -n NetscapeRoot
> -a `pwd`/NetscapeRoot.ldif ... repeat for each database instance
>
> The migration script will look for a file called
> /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-instance/db/<db instance name>.ldif and use that
> rather than the binary files.
>
> You should also run the migration script with the -x option to force it
> to use cross platform mode.
>   
>> Thanks,
>> -Reinhard
>>
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