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It wasn’t using it till now? What was the equivalent component previously?
by koolba 6y ago
It wasn’t using it till now? What was the equivalent component previously?
- cperciva 6y agoMany things for different purposes. Files in UFS filesystems. Sorted files. Indexed sorted files. In one case, Amazon SimpleDB.
- exikyut 6y agoOut of curiosity, what was the use case/upstream requirement for building Kivaloo in the first place? The Kivaloo page notes that it was designed for Tarsnap, but I'm curious as to the "why" - eg, an eventual-consistency/consensus building block, a simple local metadata service, server-side housekeeping...? (I'm also curious what "{indexed ,}sorted files" means, and how UFS is significant.)