Re: [ldapext] nfsv4 vs the ldap consistency model

[simo <idra@samba.org>]

On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 16:12 +0100, Leif Johansson wrote:
> > At present, I'm kind of at b).
> >
> > But I don't see how that changes the replication consistency.  In
> > particular, replication of the data for which the condition depends
> > upon would still only eventually consistent.
> 
> It requires that the server does the work of waiting for the update
> operation to finish on all slaves. If the update failed on one of the 
> slaves the operation would return an error immediately. 
> 
> >
> > If what they are after is transactional consistency, there may be
> > existing LDAP implementations which provide this.  I recall something
> > be presented in this area at LDAPcon.
> 
> Transactional consistency would solve the problem but I think what
> they need is somewhat less than transactional consistency. Not sure
> if it is less enough to warrant a standard extension.

Leif,
may I insist in asking what do they need this feature for ?

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo@samba.org>
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. <simo@redhat.com>

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