"chas williams - CONTRACTOR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bdb supports records up to 4G in size. so this will limit files unless > you span them across records. bdb certainly supports partial access > to records. it maintains some idea of page size for i/o operations > (where you choose page size based on your applications, probably 16k > for afs given the iovec size at the moment).
A very ancient copy of bdb I worked on once had a default page size based on the filesystem on which it was created, and very large data fields were implemented as a pointer to the actual data which was stored in a series of linked pages. Hopefully they fixed the latter, otherwise, seeking to random points in data is going to be expensive. -Marcus _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info