Re: meta and replica

[Jehan PROCACCIA <Jehan.Procaccia@int-evry.fr>]

I am reposting my question ...! Any comments on that, how to use 
replicas with an openldap meta database ?
Are there people using the meta backend ?

thanks.

see details below ...

Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
> Hello, i am experimenting with openldap meta fonctionnality.
> It seems to work fine, at least for the simple test below
>
> /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
> database        meta
> suffix          "dc=meta,dc=fr"
>
> uri           "ldap://localhost/dc=entite1,dc=meta,dc=fr";
> suffixmassage "dc=entite1,dc=meta,dc=fr" "dc=entite1,dc=fr"
>
> uri           "ldap://localhost/dc=entite2,dc=meta,dc=fr";
> suffixmassage "dc=entite2,dc=meta,dc=fr" "dc=entite2,dc=fr"
>
> uri           "ldap://master/dc=entite3,dc=meta,dc=fr";
> suffixmassage "dc=entite3,dc=meta,dc=fr" "dc=entite3,dc=fr"
> lastmod  off
>
> I am wondering how can I define the meta server to use replicas. 
> something like 
> uri          
> "ldap://master/dc=entite3,dc=meta,dc=fr","ldap://slave/dc=entite3,dc=meta,dc=fr";
>
> isn't accepted :-(
>
> One would say that I create one couple uri/suffixmassage for the master
> and an other for the slave, 
> uri           "ldap://master/dc=entite3,dc=meta,dc=fr";
> suffixmassage "dc=entite3,dc=meta,dc=fr" "dc=entite3,dc=fr"
> uri           "ldap://slave/dc=entite3,dc=meta,dc=fr";
> suffixmassage "dc=entite3,dc=meta,dc=fr" "dc=entite3,dc=fr"
>
> but if both are running I'll get search result doubled !.
>
> Is it possible to use efficientlty replicas with meta ?
>
> thanks