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

[Aldrik KLEBER]

Le Lundi 09 Janvier 2006 01:26, Andy Tai a écrit :
> 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
>


If we want to have a backend db, we must think about the revision library too.
Studying the code show me that all is organised as a filesystem, with plugins 
to manage fileystem through, http, ftp,  sftp. If this model work, this is 
because there is a real filesystem behind.

I think for the moment (my point of view can change later), it is possible to 
have an efficient db backend, but with one condition, we must plug the 
backend higher in arch API, not at the level of the pfs. Why ?
_ Nothing is more efficient to store a filesystem than a real filesystem
_ Relationnal DB are designed to drop the notion of filesystem, so we don't 
store files on a db, but we store logical entity, like, category, package, 
version, hacker, etc ...

I continue my study of code arch, if I manage to design an appropriate(clean) 
interface, I will start the writing of SQLite backend.

-- 
Cordialement,

Aldrik

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