On Tuesday 30 April 2013 21:11:47 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Hardly. The storage format is bitcoin protocol wire format, plus a > tiny header. It is supported in multiple applications already, and is > the most efficient storage format for bitcoin protocol blocks.
"Most efficient" for what purpose? There is more that one might do than just duplicate bitcoind exactly. I can well imagine storing bitcoin blocks parsed and separated out into database fields. > > Wouldn't it be better to add support for more bitcoin-protocol-oriented > > HTTP requests? Then any client can supply the same interface, rather > > than being forced to create blkNNNN.dat on the fly? > > You don't have to create anything on the fly, if you store blocks in > their native P2P wire protocol format. If. What if I'm writing a client and don't want to store them the way bitcoind has? > This is a whole new client interface. It's fun to dream this up, but > it is far outside the scope of an efficient HTTP protocol that > downloads blocks. Except the alternative is no schema at all -- essentially it's just give access to a file on disk. Well, that hardly needs discussion at all, and it hardly needs the involvement of bitcoind, apache could do it right now. > Your proposal is closer to a full P2P rewrite over HTTP (or a proxy > thereof). I don't think it's a "rewrite". The wire protocol is only a small part of what bitcoind does. Adding another thread listening for HTTP requests at the same time as on 8333 for stadnard format. Anyway -- I've obviously misunderstood what the idea behind a HTTP protocol was, and it's not like I was volunteering to do any of the work ;-) Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins andypark...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
