Can't work, the storage file will have data that points to previously
written data. Copying the raw bytes means the structures point to
random places in the new file.
-Damien
On Dec 22, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Chris Anderson wrote:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Damien Katz <[email protected]>
wrote:
It's a known issue that compaction maybe cannot complete under
heavy write
load. At some point maybe we should implement a mechanism to
throttle writes
if the compaction isn't making enough progress during updates.
Would it be possible to artificially "complete" compaction by
appending the last few sections of the original file verbatim to the
new file? Maybe after the second pass it could just copy over
uncompacted updates... maybe the whole idea is too dirty.
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Chris Anderson
http://jchris.mfdz.com
