Re: Streamy FS writes found detrimental.

Quoting Branko ??ibej (brane@xbc.nu):
> cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
>
> >I'm, really, really bothered by this. Anybody have any suggestions on
> >what to do about it? Perhaps I should do some sort of in-between
> >thing where the filesystem caches writes up to some size (say, 1
> >megabyte) and then flushes to Berkeley? I'll entertain all
> >suggestions -- the current behavior is ridiculous, and I'd rather not
> >have streamy writes at all if this is the price we pay.
> >
> I described the solution to Greg on irc yesterday -- take the fulltexts
> out of the database, and put them into the filesystem.

This presents other problems with filesystem limitations, etc. svn goes
to great lengths to be portable (APR et al) so does it make sense to destroy
this with filesystem dependencies? These problems may be easier to solve
than the bdb ones, of course.

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