Thanks for the first paragraph :-) Concerning your second paragraph, what I am proposing is a sort of refactoring of the lstat code that will be the first step in something like what you propose.
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 16.20:41 David Boyes wrote: > > Just my opinion, of course. I'd be interested to hear how much effect > > this would have on others and whether they think it's worthwhile to > > even > > > investigate. > > Moved and seconded. I don't think the world needs to reinvent > packed-decimal yet again and all the grief that fancy encoding schemes > cause, especially since they tend to fail miserably on different-endian > machines (see ext4 problems on non-Intel architectures -- you were > planning on testing this stuff on PPC and zSeries, right?). This is a > database tuning issue, really -- if your database isn't set up to handle > the volume Bacula generates, then it's time. > > IMHO, you'd get more bang for the work by abstracting the file > parameters into a list of attributes and pointing to those via a table. > That would also give you a lot of the infrastructure necessary to handle > the arbitrary attribute support you need for SELinux, etc, and give you > a good start on being able to deduplicate file data (no point in storing > the same file multiple times). > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-devel mailing list > Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
