My requirements are to save variable sized binary records and ability to query them later on. So i was looking at Tfile and had some doubts.
1. Is the datablock in the tfile a fixed size or variable size? If it is fixed, what happens when a record cannot fit in the datablock? Would you normally fill the empty space with zeros or spread the record over 2 datablocks? 2. Is there any downside of having a variable sized datablocks? 3. Are the records synced with file at the boundary of a datablock or they just written to file system. The question is like write() call in linux vs fsync()? Thank you, -- Maninder Batth No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terrible inconvenienced.
