In need of a virtual filesystem / archive

bonono at gmail.com bonono at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 03:55:35 EST 2006


Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I suspect you can pick any two of the following three:
>
> 1. single file
> 2. space used for deleted files is reclaimed
> 3. fast performance
>
> Using a proper database will give you 2 and 3, but at
> the cost of a lot of overhead, and typically a
> relational database is not a single file.
sqlite can give 1-3, it does have overhead but whether it worths it
depends on individual judgement based on features, usage pattern etc..
I think monotone use it.




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