Re: multiple masters - is it stable and official?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:51 AM +0200 Tomasz Chmielewski 
<mangoo@interia.pl> wrote:

> Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> > At 01:31 PM 10/27/2004, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> >
> > > I was looking for a solution to my problem (described in "" from ) and
> > > I found this post
> > > http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200210/msg00328.html -
> > > it's about having multiple masters (change in one of them would be
> > > propagated to all other masters). As this thread was two years old,
> > > here comes my question: is it possible to have multiple OpenLDAP
> > > masters? Is the code stable, or do one still have to change the sources
> > > to be able to run "multiple masters / multimasters"?
> >
> >
> > There are remnants of experimental multi-master code in OpenLDAP
> > Software.  I know little of it, I ignore it.
>
> Remnants? So the whole idea was just abandoned?
> Even "OpenLDAP 2.2 Administrator's Guide" says something like "slapd also
> includes experimental support for multi-master replication" (chapter 1.6).
>
> So what's up with this multiple masters? Is it abandoned (as Kurt seems
> to indicate) or is it "working, but experimental" (as in the Admin's
> Guide)?

It is abandoned, may be working, and was always experimental.

--Quanah


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