On Jan 24, 2008, at 3:12 AM, Thomas Lotze wrote:
Jim Fulton wrote:
IMO, something that packed incrementally, with disk being freed
along the
way, would be a big improvement. This isn't possible with
FileStorage.
Just an idea, without having followed FileStorage's history: Has
spreading
the file storage across multiple files been considered?
Sure, but then retaining consistency across files would become a
greater challenge. It is certainly possible, that's what the Berkeley
DB does.
That would be an entirely different storage implementation.
Suppose
FileStorage didn't put everything into one big file which has to be
rewritten from scratch during packing. Since transactions are simply
appended to that big file it should be possible to store each
transaction
in its own small file. Incremental packing might then be possible by
conflating the oldest n files into one, for some sufficiently small n.
Lots of things are possible in alternative storage implementations.
That wouldn't be FileStorage.
Jim
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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation
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