On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 07:02:23PM -0500, Tavin Cole wrote:
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> What makes the datastore so nasty to fix is that it's not a matter of
> weeding the bugs out of a sufficient design..  there are just big
> architectural holes that still need to be filled.  I'm not trying
> to discourage anyone from finding and fixing bugs in the current
> system, but I'm totally convinced that any serious effort to make
> it really robust will lead the designer down the same paths of
> extensive re-designing that I've been down.

Tavin, how much of the necessary stuff (circular buffers etc) could be
implemented on top of regular files instead of the native FS? I know the
advantages of the FS, but it has to be weighted against the workload
necessary, and I'm beginning to feel that what started as a joke is
growing ad inifinitum.


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Oskar Sandberg
oskar at freenetproject.org

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