I am looking into the feasibility of upgrading the LDAP backend used for authentication on many of our web sites (roughly 300K users). Currently we are using FedoraDS 1.0.2 running on RHEL 4 in a multi-master configuration of two nodes configured as a high-availability cluster using Heartbeat from the Linux-HA project. My underlying database is Berkeley DB 4.2.52. My goal would be to upgrade to FedoraDS 1.1 running on RHEL 5.1. I have managed to complete the initial installation on my test system and so I'm now digging into the details of the migration. Some questions that have come up: 1. RHEL5.1 ships with Berkeley DB 4.3 and I noticed a note that this has been found subpar for production use in large environments. Should I consider reverting back to Berkeley DB 4.2.52 or should I look into installing Berkeley DB 4.5 or 4.6? If I installed the FedoraDS 1.1 fc6 binary packages, do I need to be worried that these were built against a specific Berkeley DB version? 2. Most of the migration notes I see on the site mention migrating from 1.0.4 to 1.1. Is it necessary to migrate our current 1.0.2 install to 1.0.4 as an intermediate step to upgrading to 1.1? Or should the 1.0.4 migration steps be sufficient? 3. Previously, we had separate physical filesystems for / and /opt, so that the directory server files were separated from the system files. I understand that in FedoraDS 1.1 the decision has been to standardize the pathing so this is no longer feasible. If I still wanted at least the instance-specific files (or at least the instance-specific database files) to be in a separate filesystem, say /data, what would be the recommended way of accomplishing this? Or should I just go crazy with symbolic links to accomplish the structure I want? :-) I greatly appreciate any advice you can provide regarding these questions. I must say that we originally deployed FedoraDS 1.0.2 two years ago to replace a much older OpenLDAP 2.0 implementation and have generally been happy with both its performance and stability. Thanks, Jeff Tharp System Administrator ESRI - Redlands, CA http://www.esri.com
