Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual page 91

This division of the tree corresponds to three databases, as follows:
Database one contains the data for
dc=example,dc=com
dc=example,dc=com
database three contains the data for
• Multiple databases for one suffix.
Suppose the number of entries in the
is so large that you need two databases to store them. In this case, the data
contained by
ou=people
illustrated as follows:
ou=people
, so that clients can conduct searches based at
. Database two contains the data for
ou=contractors
ou=people
could be distributed across two databases. This is
Creating and Maintaining Databases
plus the data for
ou=groups
.
branch of your directory tree
Chapter 3 Configuring Directory Databases
, and
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