From 495af6caccfc53525047ede3d3e53ea620d34a0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Howard Chu Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:53:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] More backend info updates: MDB, NDB --- doc/man/man5/slapd-config.5 | 8 ++++++-- doc/man/man5/slapd.backends.5 | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-config.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-config.5 index e900d2c493..96959a9651 100644 --- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-config.5 +++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-config.5 @@ -1088,7 +1088,8 @@ value "oid.xx" will be used. .SH GENERAL BACKEND OPTIONS Options in these entries only apply to the configuration of a single -type of backend. All backends may support this class of options. +type of backend. All backends may support this class of options, but +currently none do. The entry must be named .B olcBackend=,cn=config and must have the olcBackendConfig objectClass. @@ -1100,8 +1101,10 @@ should be one of .BR hdb , .BR ldap , .BR ldif , +.BR mdb , .BR meta , .BR monitor , +.BR ndb , .BR null , .BR passwd , .BR perl , @@ -1109,7 +1112,8 @@ should be one of .BR shell , or .BR sql . -At present, no backend implements any options of this type. +At present, no backend implements any options of this type, so this +entry should not be used. .SH DATABASE OPTIONS Database options are set in entries named diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd.backends.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd.backends.5 index 95a727ff36..7c63454bce 100644 --- a/doc/man/man5/slapd.backends.5 +++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd.backends.5 @@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ This layout stores entry DNs more efficiently than the backend, using less space and requiring less work to create, delete, and rename entries. It is also one of the few backends to support subtree renames. -.BR .TP .B ldap This backend acts as a proxy to forward incoming requests to another @@ -65,6 +64,16 @@ of the database, using plain ascii files to store data. Its usage should be limited to very simple databases, where performance is not a requirement. This backend also supports subtree renames. .TP +.B mdb +This will soon be the recommended primary backend, superseding +.BR hdb . +This backend uses OpenLDAP's own MDB transactional database +library. It is extremely compact and extremely efficient, delivering +much higher performance than the Berkeley DB backends while using +significantly less memory. Also, unlike Berkeley DB, MDB is crash proof, +and requires no special tuning or maintenance. +This backend also supports subtree renames. +.TP .B meta This backend performs basic LDAP proxying with respect to a set of remote LDAP servers. It is an enhancement of the @@ -80,7 +89,8 @@ backend may be defined. .B ndb This backend is experimental. It uses the transactional database interface of the MySQL Cluster Engine -(NDB) to store data. +(NDB) to store data. Note that Oracle, which now owns MySQL, has withdrawn +support for NDB and this backend is unlikely to be developed any further. .TP .B null Operations in this backend succeed but do nothing. @@ -131,8 +141,10 @@ default slapd configuration directory .BR slapd\-hdb (5), .BR slapd\-ldap (5), .BR slapd\-ldif (5), +.BR slapd\-mdb (5), .BR slapd\-meta (5), .BR slapd\-monitor (5), +.BR slapd\-ndb (5), .BR slapd\-null (5), .BR slapd\-passwd (5), .BR slapd\-perl (5), -- 2.39.5