On Mar 23, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Robert Newson wrote: > One way to avoid this is to > use one file for documents and another for attachments. If TouchDB is > effectively doing that, then that explains how you escape the issue.
Yes — TouchDB stores every attachment as a separate file. It’s a very simple content-indexed store, where the files are named according to their SHA-1 digests. The document metadata* contains attachment digests. (This then requires that compaction run a mark-sweep phase where it collects the digests of all available attachments, then deletes attachment files that don’t appear in that list.) —Jens * https://github.com/couchbaselabs/TouchDB-iOS/wiki/Object-Design-And-Schema
