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[Aaron Lehmann]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 07:34:18PM -0700, Monkey Master wrote:
> begin  Aaron Lehmann quotation:
> > As I understand it, in EFM the database holds individal settings for
> > every directory you have done anything to. This is a lot of stuff
> > for someone who uses EFM a lot. EFM' developers have decided to read
> > it off the disk when necessary, rather than keep all the data for
> > all directories in memory. I believe Nick agrees with this
> > philosophy, since it is the main thing he blasts Emacs for. Berkeley
> > DB makes it easier to read things off the disk incrementally, since
> > with a text file it would have to be parsed each time.
> 
> 	Er, no.  I lambast EMACS for reading an entire file into RAM
> and letting the VM system page it out as it goes.  there's this great
> system call called "seek()" that you can use to  move around in a file
> without having to load it into a big-ass array.

Exactly my point. Berkeley DB makes it easy to seek() and load data
when you need it. Not loading a text configuration file into core
while running would probably cause parsing nightmares, as well as a
loss of speed due to parsing.

Again, this is all AFAIK.

> 	As for storing configuration data, how can there POSSIBLY be
> enough to warrant a db?

(Reading database ... 44272 files and directories currently
installed.)

A scalable design for a file manager is good when you have >
sizeof(short) files to manage.

BTW, I was wrong about the central database. It puts one in the .icons
subfolder of each directory it visits :(. But they are pretty large:

-rw-r--r--    1 aaronl   aaronl     147456 Jun 12 00:59 .0.db

for a dir with 274 items

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