Re: cn=config: sharing, conditionals

[Raphaël Ouazana-Sustowski <raphael.ouazana@linagora.com>]

Hi,

Le Ven 29 mai 2009 16:11, Howard Chu a écrit :
> Rein Tollevik wrote:
>> Howard Chu wrote:
>>> Howard Chu wrote:
>>>> Since there is currently no support at all, I think it's important to
>>>> get
>>>> something usable first, and worry about those other cases later.
>>>
>>> The other alternative, which is much simpler to implement, is just to
>>> add a suffixmassage/rewrite keyword to the syncrepl config, allowing it
>>> to pull from a particular remote base and map it to the local base.
>>> Then
>>> it's up to the sysadmin to create a complete cn=config hierarchy
>>> somewhere else on the master server and let the slaves pick it up. That
>>> would address all of the issues of differentiation, at the cost of a
>>> little bit of redundancy on the master.
>>
>> I'm not too fond of the proposed olcServerMatch, it appears to me to
>> create a cluttered config database that requires you to match these
>> attribute values to see the currently active configuration.  Should it
>> be added though, then I would prefer it to be defined as range(s) of
>> serverIDs rather than a pattern to match.  Regexp matching of integer
>> ranges is always awkward..
>
> Yes, I agree, it would make things cluttered and the complexity could
> easily
> get out of hand. In retrospect I'm not so fond of the idea.

Wouldn't it be possible to simply extend the attribute name to make it
match a server?
Eg:
olcAccess;server1: ...
olcAccess;server2: ...

That would be IMHO more clear than any related regexp-attribute.

Regards,
Raphaël Ouazana.