Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] revisioning BDB databases

[Bug Goo]

Created as bug 152

On Wed Jun 16 02:54:56 2004, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> 
> A previous [BUG] post describes how to add xdelta support to arch
> without breaking everything --- the idea of ".exact.tar.gz"
> alternative changesets.
> 
> An analogous idea for deltas to a BDB persistent hash table is to
> archive the appends to a BDB _log_file_, but to, when applying a
> .exact changeset, recreate the associated database (also archived)
> by replaying the log rather than using xdelta.
> 
> Another previous [BUG] post (a "FEATURE REQUEST") described how to
> implement two-stage commit.
> 
> The above technique for archiving BDB logs plus the plans for
> two-stage commit plus the plans for a "global-scale distributed
> filesystem" add up, in a fairly simple way, to a storage manager for a
> global-scale relational database.
> 
> 
> Didn't someone once say "the network is the computer"?
> -t
> 
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