On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Howard Chu <[email protected]> wrote:

> > If this is true, then would i also be correct is saying that -S <sid>
> > only sets a parameter to enable the -w option to set the SID correctly
> > in CSN's etc? and that the value provided by -S has no effect if -w is
> > not provided ?
>
> No.
>

hmmm.. csnsid in slapadd.c defaults to 0, unless the -S option is given, but
let us assume it is given -S 1, so csnsid=1

if the -w option is specified, then update_ctxcsn is >0

it looks like slapadd will create the berval csn (in memory) which takes the
value of csnsid, but it will only write related data if (update_ctxcsn)

but for multimaster the csnsid is used (thus must be provided) to find it's
own CSN, but unless update_ctxcsn is >0, it wont change any state?

so maybe -S <sid> is required (with or without -w) to initialize multimaster
to find the correct CSN (as other master's CSN's could be present? - i dont
quite get why though if we are re-loading the database), but for mirrormode
-S <sid> is not required (if there is no -w), but only because any other
<sid>'s are likely to be shadow contexts in the initial case of a data load
?

Cheers
Brett

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