2011/2/16 Soren Lassen <[email protected]>: > I committed the persistence patch at revision 84e762b3bd. You enable > it by setting delta_store_type = file in server.config. I have flagged > this option "experimental" for now by adding the following note in > server.config.example: > > "Note: file system support is experimental. Your server may crash. And > the file format is > not stable and shouldn't be relied upon for long-term storage yet; > upcoming changes will > require you to blow away your data." > > If you try it out, please report if things work (so we can remove > "Your server may crash" from the note) or if they don't (so we can fix > them). > > Possible file format changes include changes to id serialisation, by > Alex North, and changes to the per-wavelet index file, which Frederic > Gobry was looking at. I'll check with Alex and Frederic what their > plans are and try to come up with a road map for stabilising the file > format.
I started working on snapshots, and then got sidetracked by a few urgent projects. I'll resume my work on snapshots in a week or so, and don't plan to touch the index format in the meantime. > > Soren > -- Frédéric
