[Grub-develop] FW: Idea

[Igor S. <oz...@gr...>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Wagner Teixeira [mailto:wa...@wt...]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 1:54 PM
To: Kord Campbell
Cc: Igor Stojanovski
Subject: Idea



I haven't catched the total picture about GRUB, but I think you'll like
this: as you may know (I've told it before), I'm finishing a textual DB
engine, and one problem I've been thinking about is: how large can be a
database? How large can be a disk? How large can be a file in a filesystem?

The answer: no matter.

WTB/Fullbase works based on CVirtualStorage class, that can be local or
client/server, and can handle 2^64 volumes (files OR disks), with 2^64 I/O
blocks each with reasonable size each (10KB, for instance). With some math,
it gives 2^128 blocks with 10KB each, or 10240 * 2^128 bytes,  10240 *
340,282,366,920,900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.

CVirtualStorage is implemented as local at this time and works fine.

The point is: it works well for my own DB engine, but it is not ready to
work with other engines, once it is an API. I don't know if it is a good
solution for use with UDMSearch (I don't know UDMSearch).

Well... this is my first contribution (try) :)

Wagner.