On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 12:43:05 -0400, "Evan Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> Will an app as described above still suffer from problems with high
>writes?
>There are two independent attacks on this problem underway:
>2. Implement the application-level conflict handling you read about, so that
>Folders and Catalogs can decide that two writes don't conflict after all,
>and merge them into a single update.
Yes, that will help
>1. Make Folders and Catalogs store meta-data about their contents in a data
>structure consisting of small persistent objects, like B-Tree nodes. This
>reduces the scope of potential conflict (and the size of the update required
>by a write) to the size of one of these nodes.
As I understand it, a BTreeFolder alone (ie without application-level
conflict handling) will not help here.
Folders have to ensure that all their contained elements have a
different id. The hot-spot is the only way a Folder can achieve this.
Toby Dickenson
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