[Fedora-directory-users] Fractional Replication Updates

[Rich Megginson]

Mike C wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could someone clarify what exactly fractional replication updates are?
>
> If I e.g. change a userPassword entry for a user in my ldap directory,
> which is the master in a master-slave replication scenario, what gets
> sent to the slave? The entry for that user, or just the changed
> attribute, or even the entire directory? From my readings, I think
> that a) With Fractional Replication, only the entry gets transmitted.
> b) With Normal Replication, the whole entire directory gets
> transmitted. Is this correct?
>   
No.  With any replication, only the one modification to that one 
attribute is transmitted.  It's essentially just an LDAP MOD operation 
with some extra information for replication.
> Is someone able to update the docs on this subject? The only section I
> can find related to Fractional Updates is here:
> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features and it is a 1 liner.
>   
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/deploy/7.1/rep.html#1076528
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
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