[Pkg-openldap-devel] [openldap] 06/07: update slapd README about back-mdb

[Ryan Tandy]

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commit 0a20241be0c45e9e2bbc00aba9a6bca9c3168a05
Author: Ryan Tandy <ryan at nardis.ca>
Date:   Thu Aug 28 21:03:12 2014 -0700

    update slapd README about back-mdb
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 debian/slapd.README.Debian | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/slapd.README.Debian b/debian/slapd.README.Debian
index 5233e98..f5be4e6 100644
--- a/debian/slapd.README.Debian
+++ b/debian/slapd.README.Debian
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ Notes about Debian's slapd package
   reportbug and not to upstream; upstream is not responsible for changes
   made in the Debian package.
 
+  In addition to the man pages shipped with this package, please consult
+  the OpenLDAP Admin Guide for more information, including configuration
+  examples for common use cases. <http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/>
+
 The OpenLDAP configuration
 
   Since version 2.4.23-3 the configuration of OpenLDAP has been changed to
@@ -26,6 +30,22 @@ The OpenLDAP configuration
   For configuration options see the several manpages that exist or the
   documentation provided upstream.
 
+Using the MDB Backend
+
+  MDB is a new database backend using the LMDB library created by the
+  OpenLDAP developers. It will become the default backend in a future
+  version of OpenLDAP. The MDB backend has fewer configuration
+  parameters than HDB/BDB and generally does not require hand tuning.
+
+  The database is stored in a sparse file with a specified maximum size.
+  The size should be set larger than the database is ever anticipated to
+  grow, but can be increased later if needed. When the MDB backend is
+  chosen during initial configuration, the Debian package configures the
+  automatically created database with a maximum size of 1 GiB.
+
+  The space currently used by the database can be found using du(1); for
+  example: du -h /var/lib/ldap/data.mdb
+
 Using BDB/HDB Backends
 
   HDB is the recommended database backend.  It's the same as BDB but

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