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

[Adam Cassar]

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:
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>>I'm a bit concerned about failures since I can't test that properly in a
>>two-node cluster.
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>>I suppose what I'm really asking is this: Is running LDAP as a cluster
>>service a particularly bad idea for any reason?
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>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.
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>-- Lon
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