Re: [GNUnet-developers] caching proxy type data storage

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Saturday 22 June 2002 08:00 pm, you wrote:
> I think i missunderstood where the data was stored.
>
> The ~/gnunet/data directory really contains metadata,

No, it contains the real data and information about other hosts.

> ~/gnunet/data/content.gdb only stores key-pairs.

Key->value mappings. (HashCode->Content)

> ~/gnunet/database actually stores the (indexed) files that are shared.

That's database.list in combination with gnunet/database which maps requests 
to an index in database.list.

> It is this database file i was thinking should not be a gdb databse, and
> its not by the looks of it.

gnunet/database.{0,1,2} is surely not. And it should not since we need MUCH 
faster access than any generic database can offer. These are essentially 
large datastructures that we would like in memory, but since they are so big, 
we're forced to keep them on the drive.

Christian
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