Re: Multi Master Enviornment for Openldap 2.3

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Alex Samad wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:57:46PM -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
> > Zhang William wrote:
> >
> > > chain + sync cant handle any request if master is down.
> > >
> > > I made some modifications before so that a client will change into 
> > > master and other clients will connect to it in case master is down, 
> > > but it is only academic.
> > >
> > > the architecture "HA + LB cluster" has been rised  long before, but it 
> > > seems openldap team doesnt implement it gracefully yet :-(
> > As noted in many previous messages, mirrormode addresses this situation 
> > automatically.
> But with one exception you can't write to both database at the same time

Right, nor do you need such a capability for a high-availability solution.

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