On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:17 AM, Alex V. <[email protected]> wrote:

> For example file path or URL.


We in KDE[1] have been using LMDB for building a file indexer. In order to
store file paths we have also used a sequence of keys since file paths are
hierarchical.

* Every file has an id. This is a combination of the device id + inode
number.
* We map fileId -> (parentId fileName)
* We map parentId -> list of sub-file ids

For (id -> file path), multiple lookups are required
For (file Path -> id), we can just rely on the file system

This obviously only works for files which exist in the file system. Also
with this folder renames are very cheap.

-- 
Vishesh Handa

[1] https://www.kde.org/

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