Re: Store FS related questions

2002-01-18 Thread Niels Möller
Diego Roversi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Compressed store make sense only if the are readonly or used with a > "substore" that can shrink or grow at will. That happens because you can't > know how well data can be compressed. The only way to handle correctly is to > compress the data at fs lay

Re: Store FS related questions

2002-01-17 Thread Diego Roversi
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:15:22PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > If you use gunzip:STORE where store is any store, it will create an > uncompressed copy in memory. STORE can also be the concat store, or ileave > store or whatever. But note that this is probably not what you want (writes > ge

Re: Store FS related questions

2002-01-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:41:41PM -0800, Galchin Vasili wrote: > 1) In "store.h" type servers, what is the best way for me to > understand the pager.c file? I.e. is it external storage > management? It is external memory management, eg the callbacks required by libpa

Store FS related questions

2002-01-16 Thread Galchin Vasili
Hello, 1) In "store.h" type servers, what is the best way for me to     understand the pager.c file? I.e. is it external storage management?     2) A brief answer to what is defpager server and where are the    other pieces like main.c?       3) Using kids (children