Re: file access logic

2010-04-08 Thread Jonathan Ellis
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureInternals On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:35 AM, S Ahmed wrote: > When data has to be read from file (immutable sstable), where in the > codebase/logic does it go about searching for the location of the key? > > Once it has found the key, is the exact locati

file access logic

2010-04-08 Thread S Ahmed
When data has to be read from file (immutable sstable), where in the codebase/logic does it go about searching for the location of the key? Once it has found the key, is the exact location in terms of its location on disk stored in a index for future lookups? When data is stored on disk, is it ju