So the downside would be single point of failure for writes? I.e., if
the system with the slapd configured for doing writes went down due to
hardware or power issues, you'd need to configure one of the other
slapds to accept writes, and then update all the clients to use that
server.
Yes. We could do this fairly transparently using something like the
chaining overlay. Have it identically configured on all servers, with a
prioritized list of write masters. (Could do this to make mirrormode
easier to setup too.) If the current node is the write master, allow
write ops thru, otherwise chain them to the current write master. Then
clients can send ops to any server they want.