On Lun 21 novembre 2005 16:35, John Madden wrote: >> Ok, so syncrepl does not seem to be a good idea in the case of two >> masters >> in different places. What about the case of two load-balanced masters? >> Will syncrepl garantee that the data are the same on the two master? Or >> is >> it just as old multimaster code: it push (in fact pull) the >> modifications >> and does not check that the master's state is like the other's? > > Ask yourself: Do you really, seriously need load balancing? Or are you > thinking > that you need load balancing when what you really need is HA?
Some of my customers do. I agree HA is sufficient in most cases. But load balancing is needed in some cases and IMHO simplier to configure in every cases. > To the best of my knowledge, there isn't a multi-master implementation on > the > market that will allow you to load balance a directory and actually > guarantee that > two clients running down two different nodes will get a consistent view of > an > object. Do you know of one? Maybe ActiveDirectory, but there is a software patent on it. Raphael Ouazana.
