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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:52:12 -0500
From: William Josephson <kjw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti workalike in Python
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:00:41PM -0800, John E. Barham wrote:
> I'm not planning on re-implementing venti's arena code but thought that it
> would be quick and easy for testing purposes to implement the back-end
> storage using something like dbm or, mea culpa, a relational database.  (I
> added binary type support to the Python extension for SQLite with this in
> mind.)  Thoughts?

I'd use Berkeley DB. In fact I have a small prototype system
that does just that using 4K data blocks.  For small amounts
of data it works fine and I'd expect it to be OK up to at
least a hundred gigabytes.