Re: ITS#4261 replication

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

hyc@symas.com wrote:
> While waiting for this patch to get cleaned up, I wrote this up to allow 
> configuring the multimaster mode.
>   

We're using multimaster for hot-standby support, and it's quite useful 
in that role. A few more tweaks would make using it even simpler: If we 
allow multiple URIs to be configured for a single consumer, then we can 
handle multi-way mastering/failover automatically, and we can use 
identical configs on all of the machines. (Each node just needs to 
compare URIs to the current table of Listeners and exclude itself from 
the list.) When identical configs are working, we can use syncrepl on 
the back-config database, and so an entire cluster of servers can be 
managed at once with no more effort than a single server.

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