Hello Eduardo, this is one of the alternatives, for sure. It would bundle many files into one very effectively, and even without compression, you have a filesystem. However, my real problem is that I don't want to develop software for handling file access, locking, concurrency etc myself. What interests me though is your suggestion to combine the zipped (tared or whatever) file with SQLite. Thanks a lot!!!
BR dimitris 2007/3/18, Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
At 19:00 18/03/2007, you wrote: >Hello John, > >thanks for the valuable piece of advice. The idea is that either > >1) I store data in tabular form and work with them >2) I create a table of blobs and each blob is the binary content of a file > >(2) is my method in question, for (1) we all know it works. So I turned to >SQLite just because it seems that it is a lighweight single file database. >So, even if i don't like (2), I can setup an implementation where I have a >file system inside a fully portable file. > >BR > >dimitris You can use zlib to dwhat you want. It has functions for add and delete files, it's flat file and provides medium/good compression. You can store your file metadata on SQLite as zip filename, name of the binary file, an abstract or even a password for zip file. HTH ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
