RE: multi-master solution?

["oberwetter, josh" <joberwetter@grownetwork.com>]

Thanks.

Could you also tell me why this functionality is only experimental? Are
there known bugs or limitations?
If modify operations are executed concurrently on the same entry, are the
modifications serialized & thus atomic? If so, which takes precedence?

Josh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Storm [mailto:markus.storm@mediaways.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:07 AM
> To: oberwetter, josh
> Cc: 'openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org'
> Subject: Re: multi-master solution?
> 
> 
> #define SLAPD_MULTIMASTER 1 in portable.h after configure and before 
> compiling.
> (Kurt, mind re-enabling configure --enable-multimaster ?)
> 
> Makes slapd NOT write out a replication record on received 
> ADDs/MODs if
> the modifying user was the replication uid, thus preventing 
> infinite loops.
> 
> Markus
> 
> oberwetter, josh wrote:
> 
> >Sorry for the double post. 
> >
> >To be clear, I saw in the admin guide that there is 
> experimental support for
> >multi-master replication, but I couldn't find enough info to 
> play around
> >with it. More info, please.
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: oberwetter, josh [mailto:joberwetter@grownetwork.com]
> >>Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 6:29 PM
> >>To: 'openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org'
> >>Subject: multi-master solution?
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi, recently people have discussed load balancing several 
> >>slave servers in
> >>order to improve response time & redundancy. Can one also 
> >>load balance the
> >>masters, or will this cause an infinite loop?
> >>
> 
>