RE: Multimaster support in OpenLDAP

["Shawn Kennedy" <shawnlkennedy@lucent.com>]

You could use the database itself to provide a master/master
relationship, but since the highly-suggested DB of choice is 
BDB, it appears that BDB itself does not offer native master/master
relationships.  I looked into MySQL/PostgreSQL but have some 
problems in using those DBs in my solution.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of matthew
> sporleder
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:24 AM
> To: Kurt D. Zeilenga
> Cc: shawnlkennedy@lucent.com; OpenLDAP-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Re: Multimaster support in OpenLDAP
> 
> 
> Couldn't multi-master setup be achieved with a replicating sql
> backend?  I don't know enough about pgsql to speak on how to do it,
> but in mysql you can setup master-master replication (where a change
> to one goes to the other in close-to-real time) on the backend
> database, thus achieving multiple masters.  As far as client's server
> pooling, back-meta does that, or you can always load balance.
> 
> Mysql info taken from O'Reilly's High Performance MySQL.
> A few pgsql websites imply that there are many replication solutions for it.
> 
> On 6/2/05, Kurt D. Zeilenga <Kurt@openldap.org> wrote:
> > At 07:48 AM 6/2/2005, Shawn Kennedy wrote:
> > >Given we don't want to discuss on this list
> > >the *other* package, I'm very interested
> > >in learning about multimaster support in
> > >OpenLDAP. Other than a few comments in the
> > >Administrator's Guide, I don't see anything
> > >about how to set up and use such a beast
> > >in openLDAP.   Can anyone give me a few
> > >pointers on how to set this up beyond
> > >the config option of "--enable_mulitmaster"?
> > 
> > That option does not exist in any modern version
> > of OpenLDAP Software.  While the remains of the old,
> > experimental MMR code remains in slapd(8), it does
> > so only in hopes that someone might work on it,
> > document how it works, etc..   Likely the mention
> > of this code in the admin guide should be removed.
> > 
> > Kurt
> > 
> >