Re: syncrepl updates from consumer

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

[please keep replies on the list]

Matt Benjamin wrote:

> Perangelo,
> 
> Is that an accurate statement of what MirrorMode does?  I had understood
> that only one master was _allowed to be written to_ to maintain
> consistency--hence the need for a load-balancer.

According to recent commits and posts by Howard, mirror mode seems to
allow writes to all masters under the assumption they have tightly
sync'ed clocks (namely, under ntp with very low latency).  See
<http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200702/msg00019.html> and
test050 in HEAD code.

p.



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