[Freeipa-users] Slave Replication

[Rich Megginson]

Rob Crittenden wrote:
> David Christensen wrote:
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>> Since FreeIPA uses FDS for LDAP, there is a limit of four masters in a
>> replication configuration.  Is there a documented method for configuring
>> master/slave replication?
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>> I want to setup 4 masters in different data centers, and then have
>> slaves in other locations to keep lookups local when needed.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> The limit of 4 masters is more a "this is all 389 has 
> certified/tested" limitation. It may be able to support more but it 
> hasn't been thoroughly tested.
There is no real technical limit - 389 will support up to 65534 
masters.  Since there is no real "support" for 389, the limit "support 
for 4 masters" does not apply to 389.
>
> We don't currently support read-only replicas. It isn't a technical 
> limitation, as you point out DS supports it just fine, a tool just 
> hasn't been written. It really opens the world up to some nasty 
> looking network diagrams so we want to think carefully about what 
> we're doing before we enable it.
>
> rob
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