This is a pointless exercise.

> --On Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:27 PM +0800 "ʯ±ó(Seuler.shi )"
> <seuler.shi@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Dear Quanah:
>>
>>             Because the replication features provided by OpenLDAP do not
>> meet 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.

OpenLDAP mirrormode allows automatic promotion of a slave to a master.

Using LDAP for the control protocol is far more portable. It provides an
open, standard protocol for managing all of the servers. Using
back-config on each server will allow you to tune all of the server
parameters, including the underlying BDB parameters, from anywhere on
the network, using any of a variety of LDAP-enabled clients.

Using LDAP for the replication protocol is far more portable. It allows
data to be replicated to any LDAP-aware server, not just other OpenLDAP
servers.

Relying solely on BDB replication does not provide such power or
flexibility.

>>             As the replication mechanism reaches synchronizations by
>> transferring write requests to the replicas,
>>             this may be less efficient compared with BDB replication. So
>> we need to compare these two method.

Transmitting a single LDAP write operation over the network is far more
bandwidth-efficient than transmitting the many database pages that will
be dirtied by a single LDAP write operation.

>>             Would you tell me why OpenLDAP do not support BDB
>> replication?

Because BDB replication offers no advantages for OpenLDAP's use cases.

>>             BDB replication mechanism will operate slave databases
>> directly 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.

The only way to make it work is by removing all of the back-bdb caching
mechanisms. Performance will be extremely slow. You will lose a
significant degree of usability and gain no benefit in return for this
effort.

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