Re: LDAP Writes are not propagated to mirror nodes.

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Howard Chu wrote:
>
> > > syncrepl_updateCookie: rid=001 be_modify failed (16)
> > I took a look at this just now. This is a (stupid) interaction between
> > syncrepl and syncprov's checkpoint; syncprov has already updated the
> > contextCSN so when syncrepl tries to delete the old value it fails
> > because syncprov has already deleted it.
>
> Interesting; that's exactly what I'm seeing (2.4.7 + patches from 2.4.8)
> in a master/slave configuration.
>
> > The simple workaround for now is to just turn off the
> > syncprov-checkpoint. It's unnecessary in the mirror/multimaster config
> > since syncrepl will always keep the contextCSN up to date itself.
>
> What about master/slave?  I can just ignore it?

I would just turn off the syncprov-checkpoint in all cases.

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