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Re: federated directory

> Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>
>> To make the story short: with a few changes, it works with slurpd as
>> well,
>> exploiting the multimaster mechanism.  Since both slurpd and multimaster
>> are or will be deprecated, I don't think adding a test is worth the
>> effort.  I might pack the example files and put them on some ftp, if
>> there's interest in this solution.
>
> There is no need for the multimaster mechanism; just split the two
> portions of the tree into two separate databases and use back-glue to
> join them. On each server, one database will be a master and the other
> database will be a slave.

but if you have n federated servers this is going to be a nightmare from
an administrative point of view!  Well, the whole idea is kind of a
nightmare.   I think I'll prepare a test about it.  My current example is
available at http://www.sys-net.it/~ando/Download/

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Pierangelo Masarati
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