[Python-Dev] Subversion
Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Tue Sep 7 23:30:00 CEST 2004
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 16:59, Jp Calderone wrote:
> Files are, by and large, big blobs of opaque bytes. They don't =
> belong in a database. The subversion developers made a mistake by =
> putting *everything* into bdbs. They should have put metadata into the =
> database and files into the filesystem.
Right, and Berkeley splits big blobs up into overflow pages, which
aren't as efficient as if all the data for a key fits in on one page.
-Barry
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