Process question

Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 16:12:19 -0300 (ADT)
From: Michael Smith <michael@csuite.ns.ca>
To: CCN Tech <ccn-tech@chebucto.ns.ca>
Cc: Bob Adams <bobadams@ns.sympatico.ca>, editors@chebucto.ns.ca, ccn-ip@chebucto.ns.ca, ccn-board@chebucto.ns.ca
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On Mon, 8 May 2000, Jeff  Warnica wrote:

> 3) Maintain the namedb, ipdb, and a stuff-to-indexdb: Make the necessary
> changes to the IPDB (giving it the functionality now existing in the namedb)
> and build the stuff-to-indexdb, and associated tools.
> 
> 4) Move IP/group accounts into the namedb (or just put new ones there),
> discard the IPDB, and focus on building the stuff-to-index-db.
> 
> 3) sounds not to bad, but if there is a separate stuff-to-indexdb then
> the namedb can be striped of all of its indexing knowledge (about 75%
> of the IP-DIRS cache), actually it would have to be striped of that
> data (or just ignore it) lest it get out of sync with the
> stuff-to-indexdb. And what do you have if you strip the IPDB of the
> indexing fields? A non-working namedb. Which leads to 4)

The trouble is, neither the IPDB nor the namedb are really well suited for
this, and adding something to the namedb means creating a CSuite account
on the home partition (less free disk space, no IP-CGI, no lqtext indexing
for whatever that's worth, etc.).

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