Re: slapo-chain - can't get it working

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

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Pierangelo Masarati writes:
> > referral return when writing to a shadow database is handled by the
> > frontend.  That's why the slapo-chain(5) instance needs to be global.
> > That's also the main reason global overlays were introduced at all.
>
> Please put that in the doc.  (both slapo-chain and replication docs?)
> Also slapo-chain's "overlay chain" section which says "it is mainly
> intended for use with local storage backends".  That may be technically
> correct, but in this context it's misleading.

Slapo-chain is intended to work with local databases.  For the purpose 
of allowing transparently writing to a shadow server, it has to be 
global (for implementation related reasons).  This IMHO is reflected in 
the docs: all examples related to replication are correct, and blame for 
the fact that people ignore examples in the official documentation 
cannot be put on the developers, nor on those who wrote the documentation.

p.



Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
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