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Re:The Kivaloo Data Store by koolba on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:22PM (#24548625)
It wasn’t using it till now? What was the equivalent component previously?
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Re:The Kivaloo Data Store by cperciva on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:37PM (#24548758)
Many things for different purposes. Files in UFS filesystems. Sorted files. Indexed sorted files. In one case, Amazon SimpleDB.
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Re:The Kivaloo Data Store by exikyut on Monday September 21, 2020 @09:13PM (#24549922)
Out 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.)

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