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Date:      Sat, 13 Dec 1997 18:53:17 +1030
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel Config datafile... 
Message-ID:  <199712130823.SAA01759@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Dec 1997 03:21:54 -0000." <199712130321.UAA27603@usr04.primenet.com> 

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> > Apollo did it *much* better, and it's beginning to sound like LDAP will 
> > inherit the mantle.
> 
> Not if it can't do transactions.
...
> Really, LDAP is not mature enough at this point, except for embedded
> systems where you can guarantee the behaviour of the back end, and
> the back end is either not write-cached, or understands the
> significance of container objects implicit by hierarchy.

What you appear to be saying is that you cannot perform complex atomic
transactions, nor are transactions guaranteed to be serialised.  

There, I did it in two lines.  8)

mike





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