Hi! For the first version, I would stick with just a single copy of the data. In other words, forsake efficiency for simplicity at first.
In a later version, you might wish to look at something like inotify in order to keep a cached copy of your file data in sync. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify Cheers! jay On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:48 PM, ZQ <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm considering the engineering details about filesystem storage for > drizzle. > and there is one important decision to make, and I would like to hear from > you all. > should the table in filesystem storage engine duplicates the data that is > already in a file? > pros: more efficient, no need to retrieve the data every time a database > operation is going on. > cons: these two piece of data may do not sync well because the plain > file may be changed by user later. > Thanks. > --Zimin > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
