Re: [Linux-cluster] Clustered LDAP, good or bad idea?

[Adam Cassar <adam cassar netregistry com au>]

We run openldap quite extensively here. In my experience, if slapd fails 
it is usually due to some backend db issue, and gfs will not help you 
with that.

A master slave set up will be your best option.

Lon Hohberger wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 19:08 -0600, Ryan Thomson wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I'm a bit concerned about failures since I can't test that properly in a
> > two-node cluster.
> >
> > I suppose what I'm really asking is this: Is running LDAP as a cluster
> > service a particularly bad idea for any reason?
> >
> >    
>
> Not that I'm aware of.  I had one running a while for a reason which
> I've since forgotten (I stopped it on 29-Mar-2005, and has never been
> restarted).  However, that LDAP server was only for testing; I've never
> run one in production.
>
> -- Lon
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