Re: disks and data files

2010-12-13 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:29 PM, shimi wrote: > I am reading the kafka design documentation > (http://sna-projects.com/kafka/design.php) and I came across this (under > constant time suffices) : > Intuitively a persistent queue could be built on simple reads and appends to > files as is commonly

disks and data files

2010-12-13 Thread shimi
I am reading the kafka design documentation ( http://sna-projects.com/kafka/design.php) and I came across this (under constant time suffices) : Intuitively a persistent queue could be built on simple reads and appends to files as is commonly the case with logging solutions. Though this structure w