--On Thursday, August 19, 2021 1:35 PM -0500 kevin martin
<ktmdms@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> i understand that ldap is a protocol but it occurred to me that a
> database change (where tables and the like might be different and slapd
> version dependent) might need to be a sitewide thing, not a server by
> server thing (meaning the 2.4 servers, once the "database" is mirrored
> from the master server, might not understand the new format?).

The only limitation would be that you could not mdb_copy a 2.5 database and
run that under a 2.4 slapd.  Since it's purely internal, the replication
protocol has no "knowledge" of it, and it would not appear in an LDIF
created by slapcat.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Product Architect
Symas Corporation
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