.TH SLAPD-LDBM 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
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+.\" Copyright 1998-2004 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
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.\" $OpenLDAP$
.SH NAME
.SH DESCRIPTION
The LDBM backend to
.BR slapd (8)
-is a database which uses one of BerkeleyDB, GNU DBM, MDBM or NDBM to
-store data.
+is the database backend which is easiest to configure.
+However, it does not offer the data durability features of the BDB
+backend.
+It uses Berkeley DB or GDBM to store data.
It makes extensive use of indexing and caching to speed data access.
.SH CONFIGURATION
These
.B subfinal
indices.
The special type
-.B nolang
-may be specified to disallow use of this index by language subtypes.
+.B notags
+(or
+.BR nolang )
+may be specified to disallow use of this index by subtypes with tagging
+options (such as language options).
The special type
.B nosubtypes
may be specified to disallow use of this index by named subtypes.