You didn't address his idea one iota. Isn't this the relevant doc? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Mediawiki-database-schema.png
Maybe you could explain how the storage class renders his idea irrelevant? On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Domas Mituzas <midom.li...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello Jidanni, > > Isn't this a bit redundant with your 'store-by-sha1' topic? > > > Currently undos, so frequent on wikis, just blindly create a > > duplicate row > > instead of checking if the old one could be reused, > > mediawiki-l > > Seriously, if you think that wikimedia operations is bunch of cretins > where your simplistic observations are so much needed, you should try > other paths of influencing, like stage a rebellion or something :-) > > If you actually paid attention to the actual mediawiki capabilities > (like, all the code in > http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/maintenance/storage/ > ) or any of our site docs, you'd realize that we have the code and > methods to facilitate much more efficient compression than one you are > aiming at, way higher scalability, etc > > > Maybe some hardware > > savings could even be achieved. > > > You know that for a while we had virtually no hardware dedicated/ > needed for text storage? We were using free disks that came with > application servers. If you ever paid attention to how Wikipedia runs, > you'd know that. Now that you don't, you end up being slightly too > paternal. > > Actually, we're discontinuing the 'hundreds of storage nodes' practice > and will consolidate them back together (mostly for easier-to-manage > reasons, but that may lead to way higher availability, etc) - but that > already takes care of more than just entirely-same text, and still, > even 1/7 wouldn't matter much, as hardware for that increments in > multiple terabytes (and no, isn't insanely priced). > > Cheers, > -- > Domas Mituzas -- http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
