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

[John Arbash Meinel]

Derek Zhou wrote:
> 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 
>   

Well, the baz format archives (with $archive/category--branch--version/
instead of $archive/cat/cat--branch/cat--branch--version) are much more
friendly to the windows filesystem.
The painful operations are revision libraries and working trees.
Especially the temporary checkouts, where you have
$rl/archivename/category/category--branch/category--branch/version/
  ,,temporary-new-revision/category--branch--version-patches/{arch}/
  category/category--branch/category--branch--version/
  patch-log/...

That is where I was running into problems.

John
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