Re: Storing partial responses

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> If you want to support partial objects in the store, you're better off
> having it implemented as part of the FS interface and allow different
> FSes to support partial objects or not.

I would say "it depends":

        - optional, per-FS support of partial objects may be better if
          performance is to be optimized

        - meta-level (i.e., key-based) FS-independent support of
          partial objects is better if the number of FS that support
          partial objects (soon) and code simplicity are to be
          optimized

However, I suspect that the latter approach can provide comparable
performance on some FSs long-term.

Alex.
Received on Tue Dec 12 2000 - 10:46:00 MST