Re: multiple replication scenarios questions

Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.openldap.general
Message-ID <8C760977F54AC52F726E7D4B@[192.168.1.199]>
--On Wednesday, January 13, 2010 10:09 AM +0100 Guillaume Rousse 
<[email protected]> wrote:


> Additonal question: doesn't a classical single-master + multiple slaves
> scenarios, where each slave use chain overlay to automatically forward
> all changes to the master, also achieve exactly what is described in the
> mirror mode description ?

No.  Because if the master dies in the single-master scenario, there is no 
new master to take over.  With mirror mode, which is supposed to include a 
heart-beat monitor and a load balancer, allows the mirror master to take 
over if the other one fails.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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