Hi Ben! My understanding of this (based on an earlier discussion here on this list) is that MultiMaster is more of a concept than a technology.
IIRC, then you have to set MirrorMode to true in MultiMaster as well. Regards, Torsten On Mon, 16 May 2011 01:24:45 -0700, Ben Rockwood <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having some problems understanding the subtleties of MirrorMode vs > MultiMaster configurations. Any help with the following questions would > be helpful: > > 1) It looks like the only real difference between a MirrorMode and > Multimaster configuration is whether or not the RIDs are different. In > MirrorMode both sides have the same rid, in Multimaster they are > different. Is that so? > > 2) Passing through the code, "MirrorMode" is really "Single Master" and > MultiMaster is just "not Single Master". But the code path to determine > whether it is single master or not confuses me. How does slapd actually > determine this? > > 3) For MultiMaster, the docs show using syncrepl to replicate cn=config > and the directory (or directories if you have more than one) > independently. Is it really necessary to replicate cn=config if the > configuration isn't changing? (What I'm really looking for here is to > find out if there is state information in cn=config thats being used or > if its simply a good idea to ensure the configs are the same by using > syncrepl.) > > > Thanks, > > benr.
