The "news filesystem" that is in INN (later versions) seems to be a jumping off point. It is a circular buffer of "articles". And that's about it. There is an external DB that maps article identifiers to starting block# and size, but that's about all there is to it. There is only one "file", and that is the file system. There is only one real operation, and that is "append" article to filesystem. When the last block in the partition is written, the block # wraps around, "expiring" the articles being over-written. Since loading custom filesystem modules is pretty easy these days, a true "logging filesystem" :-) is quite doable. --tep _______________________________________________ LogAnalysis mailing list LogAnalysisat_private http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/loganalysis
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