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From: | Mike Warren |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Architecture Questions |
Date: | 22 Jan 2001 21:56:56 -0700 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) |
"Imran Ghory" <address@hidden> writes: > So we don't have to re-invent the wheel. Usenet has tradionally gone > down the direction of storing files in human readable form and it > has had in the past problems with the OS not being able to cope with > xxxx thousand articles in a directory. They could be in directories based on their unique-IDs (i.e. all IDs starting with XXXX could be in one directory). Apache's mod_rewrite could change: http://www.gne.org/article/some-unique-id.xml into: http://www.gne.org/article/some/some-unique-id.xml > Also searching and querying are integeral to a database and are far > easier and faster to use then trying to grep a massive directory. Searching should never take place on the back-end servers. -- address@hidden <URL:http://www.mike-warren.com> GPG: 0x579911BD :: 87F2 4D98 BDB0 0E90 EE2A 0CF9 1087 0884 5799 11BD
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