Re: commit: ldap/tests/scripts test050-syncrepl-multimaster

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Gavin Henry wrote:

> Nice!
>
> But I'm confused. I thought we didn't use the multimaster name, but
> MirrorMode instead?

I guess you haven't been following the syncrepl thread on -devel. After I 
figured out that the fix for ITS#4703 and #4623 was going to be half-way to 
multimaster anyway, it seemed silly to stop there. I spent this weekend 
coding up the remainder.

With the recent hubbub on the -software list about it I decided to keep quiet 
for a bit. Talking about it before it's done smacks of vaporware; it needs to 
be tested more before we start talking about it more broadly.

All that aside, it's working fine for regular syncrepl with both refreshOnly 
and refreshAndPersist. I don't really see delta-syncrepl supporting it; right 
now I just don't feel like writing the code to parse the accesslog to do the 
necessary conflict resolution. Of course, anyone else could take that on.

I'm still tinkering with it a bit. Not entirely happy with the whole rid vs 
sid / cookie concept. I'd like to take a different approach, but right now 
we're still backward compatible, so it will probably stay this way.

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