----- "Almir Karic" redduck666@gmail.com wrote:

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Pavlos Parissis p_pavlos@freemail.gr wrote:

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Well I must admit I can't read very so I will guess that the reason is to guarantee consistency in the database.

How do you guarantee consistency in the database on N-way

Multi-Master

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replication where any member can accept write operations?

AFAIK openldap can't do "true" write anywhere. the configuration is one "true" master on which writes are happening, the remaining N-1 masters just issue the referrals to the "true" master which can optionally be server side followed with slapo-chain making writes on the N-1 "non-true" masters transparent to the clients.

You need to check what you know then ;-) Who told you above or did you make it up?

http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/replication.html#N-Way%20Multi-Master%20...

Multi-Master means just that. Write to *any* master and replication is handled by Syncrepl not slapo-chain.

It wouldn't be Multi-master is there was one "true" master, as that's not multi-master!

slapo-chain can be used to "chain" writes back to a Master from a slave.