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Question: why are master/master configs unsupported?

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The tool bails out if a master-master pair is detected anywhere in the replication hierarchy (even if it's in a different branch), but I'm not actually sure why? I can see why it might cause issues with `--test-on-replica` (if the replica were a member of the master/master pair), but are there any other issues to be aware of? Given a topology like the following:

![repl](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/263424/17453395/43d7b6ce-5b30-11e6-820c-524ea234efd5.png)

Is there any danger running `gh-ost` pointed to one of R1/R2/R3?

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