> > > 4. How do you break up files in the datastore and the datastore > > > indices to get around file size limits imposed by filesystems? > > what? > > I think he's referring to the 2GB file size limit on Linux and similar > limitations in other OSs.
I apologize for the caps, but . . . WHOS GOING TO BE PASSING AROUND A 2GB FILE???!!! :) > > > In fact, I think a lot of your criticisms really don't make much > > sense. You're not designing a webserver. It doesnt *have* to scale to > > enterprise levels. > > I was thinking about this. Whenever the datastore starts having > scalability problems then that probably means we're not properly balancing > the load throughout the network. Then again, it's possible that we may end > up with so much traffic that even with proper load balancing there is > still a need for scalable datastores. This would be the case if there were > several large sites running a trusted subnetwork and swapping huge amounts > of data between each other. Of course any large node could be replaced > with several smaller nodes, but there may be times when running a large > node is a sensible thing to do, such as when you just happen to have a > big, fast computer with lots of HD space and bandwidth. You might as well > put a big, fat node on it. In general, though, I neither see much of a > need for highly scalable datastores, or any particular reason *not* to > make the datastore highly scalable. It's more of an issue with a C port > since that's what people trying to run high traffic nodes will probably > run anyway. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev > _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
