On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Christian M?llerke wrote:
> Hi! > > Sorry for bad english, and, maybe this is a beginner question: > > I'am trying to write my own small NNTP(Usenet)-daemon (experimental - just > want to increase my knowledge). > > What whould be the best method for storing articles in files divided by group > (one group, one file)? I want a good performance, ram usage should be small. > > Is BerkeleyDB a solution? Or writing file-access with streams and a > index-file? Next problem would be the locking of files (can BDB handle this > for me?). > > I'am using Linux and FreeBSD. Never programmed software for big files with > locking before. Berkely DB (or GNU DB) will take care of this for you. I'm not sure about performance using big files, but I'm assuming this will not really be a problem. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
