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Content Addressable Blob Store

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project goals #9

Open calvinmetcalf opened 10 years ago

calvinmetcalf commented 10 years ago

@maxogden I think we may have been on different pages on the goals, I've been working under the assumption that this should be a file store which

doesn't hose the file system
allows access to arbitrary locations inside storied files (for thinks like unzipping)

I'm getting the impression though that what you want is something that

uses a minimal amount of memory.
allows fast storage and retrieval of whole files.

I'm not trying to advocate one or the other I just want to make sure we're on the same page.

max-mapper commented 10 years ago

Originally I wasn't sure, but over time I've realized that avoiding fs hosing is the main goal, and that files can be relatively large (hundreds of gigabytes) and still be okay. Access to arbitrary file locations isn't important to my use case at this point, but it may be in the future (for e.g. bittorrent style sync applications).