Dave Nebinger wrote:
Search for "unmaintainable ridiculous software architecture" and you'll probably find a match to your product.
It doesn't matter what filesystem you choose as this architecture is going to abuse them significantly.
As an application developer I would never create software that met the requirements that you've listed above; it's obviously a poor solution to a problem that is better handled by a database.
You really should contact whoever created the software and ask them to take a programming course or two.
You should watch what you say. I know this will abuse the system, which will it abuse the least?
A database would not work because I wouldn't be able to #1 make this easy tree structure to scan #2 it will be smaller storage wise in files and in a DB with all that overhead #3 digging through the tree is faster than an index scan in mysql, postgresq or DB2 with as many records as I'll have. The projected database structure would be >=3Tb, but by using directories as my index I can eleminate much of that overhead and shring my storage requirement to a maintainable 750G. You don't learn that in programming class, you learn that building financial software for the last 10 years.
You #1 didn't have enough information to tell me how to arch. my software, #2 assumed the wrong info and made the wrong suggestion and #3 didn't provide any helpful information #4 attempted an insult on a list that is supposed to assist. Why even send your post? (don't bother with answer)
/djb
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