Re: [Gnu-arch-users] file system interface to a database

[Derek Zhou]

Andy Tai <address@hidden> writes:

I am against the idea of using a database as a tla archive
backend. IMHO one major strength of tla is the dumb, append only file
server storage model so backup/restore is easy and I can tinker with the
archive if I have to. 
This being said, it probably make sense to use sqlite to manage the
patch logs in a checked out tree. Those are highly structured data
currently stored as thousands of small files, yuck.
Derek 
  
> Thanks for the information. It does not look like this is an easy thing to
> do, to try to put a tla archive on top of sqlite.  But nontheless I may try
> to look into continuing the work you have done when I feel up to it...
> 
> Andy
> 
> On 1/6/06, John Arbash Meinel <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> >
> > I worked on creating a virtual filesystem (hackerlab vu layer) for both
> > zip files, and for an sqlite database. I don't know that I got very far
> > with the sqlite database.
> > But here is my older archive:
> > http://arch.arbash-meinel.com/address@hidden/
> > In general, writing a virtual filesystem wasn't terribly hard. The
> > hardest part was handling the fact that tla wants atomic rename, but
> > that isn't possible in a zip file. (*especially* if you are renaming
> > between zip files).
> >
> > I guess that was the hard part in general. There were a lot of places in
> > the tla code where it expected everything to be on the same filesystem.
> >
> > John
> >
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