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diff --git a/ldb/mainpage.dox b/ldb/mainpage.dox deleted file mode 100644 index bbd8d9c50..000000000 --- a/ldb/mainpage.dox +++ /dev/null @@ -1,80 +0,0 @@ -/** - -\mainpage ldb - -\section Overview - -ldb is a LDAP-like embedded database. It is not at all LDAP standards -compliant, so if you want a standards compliant database then please -see the excellent <a href="http://www.openldap.org/">OpenLDAP</a> -project.<p> - -What ldb does is provide a fast database with an LDAP-like API -designed to be used within an application. In some ways it can be seen -as a intermediate solution between key-value pair databases and a real -LDAP database.<p> - -ldb is the database engine used in Samba4. - -\section Features - -The main features that separate ldb from other solutions are: - - Safe multi-reader, multi-writer, using byte range locking - - LDAP-like API - - fast operation - - choice of local tdb, local sqlite3 or remote LDAP backends - - integration with <a href="http://talloc.samba.org">talloc</a> - - schema-less operation, for trivial setup - - modules for extensions (such as schema support) - - easy setup of indexes and attribute properties - - ldbedit tool for database editing (reminiscent of 'vipw') - - ldif for import/export - -\section Documentation - -ldb has limited programmer and administrator documentation: - - a list of <a href="globals_func.html">functions</a> - - a list of <a href="examples.html">examples</a> - - a list of <a href="annotated.html">data structures</a> - - a list of <a href="globals_defs.html">constants</a> - -If you need more information than is presented in this document, you -may wish to look at the source code, especially the source code in the -<a href="http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/ldb/tools/">tools directory</a>. - -ldb makes use of the LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF), which is -documented in <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2849.txt">RFC -2849</a>. - -\section Support - -ldb does not currently have its own mailing list or bug tracking -system. For now, please use the <a -href="https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-technical">samba-technical</a> -mailing list, and the <a href="http://bugzilla.samba.org/">Samba -bugzilla</a> bug tracking system. - -\section Download - -You can download the latest release either via rsync or anonymous -svn. To fetch via svn use the following commands: - -\verbatim - svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/ldb ldb - svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/tdb tdb - svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/talloc talloc -\endverbatim - -To fetch via rsync use these commands: - -\verbatim - rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/ldb . - rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/tdb . - rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/talloc . -\endverbatim - -\section Credits - -ldb is another product of the prolific <a href="http://samba.org/~tridge/">Andrew Tridgell</a>. - -*/ |