--On Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:27 PM +0800 "石斌(Seuler.shi)" seuler.shi@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Quanah:
Because the replication features provided by OpenLDAP do notmeet our software requirement. If there are N slaves and 1 master in a replication group in BDB, once the master crashes, a new master will be elected by BDB and the replication group can still work well. All the parameters concerning master election in BDB can be configured by user. This will be more portable.
As the replication mechanism reaches synchronizations bytransferring write requests to the replicas, this may be less efficient compared with BDB replication. So we need to compare these two method.
Would you tell me why OpenLDAP do not support BDBreplication?
BDB replication mechanism will operate slave databasesdirectly without inform the upper layer LDAP. The information such as index, ID and so on maintained by OpenLDAP may be inconsistent with the content of database. I try to mend the source code of OpenLDAP to let every "ldapsearch" operation find entry info in database directly, but I failed:(
I am expecting your comments.
Because they aren't compatible. I'm guessing standby master may more meet your needs, which will be a part of OpenLDAP 2.4.
--Quanah
-- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Developer ITS/Shared Application Services Stanford University GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html