Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : libtie-db-file-splithash-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Benjamin Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nihongo.org/snowhare/utilities/modules/tie-db_file-splithash/ * License : Dual GPL/Artistic Description : libtie-db-file-splithash-perl
Transparently splits a Berkeley database (DB_File) into multiple files to allow the exceeding of file system limits on file size. From the outside, it behaves identically with Berkeley DB hash support in general. This has the potential to greatly expand the amount of data that can be stored on a file size limitted file system. . It does so by taking a SHA1 hash of the key to be stored, folding the resulting hash into a value from 0 to X and storing the data to a db file selected by the value 0 to X. The randomizing behavior of the SHA1 and subsequent fold down distribute the records essentially randomly between the X+1 database files, raising the capacity of the database to (X+1) times the capacity of a single file database on the average. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27 Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15