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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:46:56 +0530
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Subject: Re: Replication configuration
From: Kiran Ayyagari <kayyagari@apache.org>
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Emmanuel L=E9charny <elecharny@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have some questions about the replication configuration...
>
> AFAICT, we may configure the server to be a consumer, a producer, both
> of them, or none of them.
>
> A standalone server will not be a producer or a consumer
> A master server will be a producer
> A slave server will be a consummer
> A master/slave server will be a producer and a consumer
>
> In any case, a server will always be able to be a producer as soon as it
> allows another server to connect on it as a consumer, and get
> replicated, so for a server to be a producer is just a matter of
> receiving a consumer request.
>
> Am I right ?
>
yes
> I'm asking because I added a flag that allow a server to become a
> producer on demand as soon as the ads-replicationEnabled flag is set to
> true (this flag is used to start the replication handler when the server
> is started). Does it makes sense to keep this flag ? Or should we always
> start the replication handler ?
>
prior to this flag we have always looked for the presence of
ads-replReqHandler attribute
if it exists we instantiate this class and the server acts as a provider/ma=
ster
> I'm inclined to think that teh flag is a good thing to have. wdyt ?
>
If the above attribute's absence can be treated as a 'false' value so
IMHO this flag is spurious in a way
> --
> Regards,
> Cordialement,
> Emmanuel L=E9charny
> www.iktek.com
>


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