Re: [Quickfix-developers] FileStore issues

[Caleb E. <ca...@bk...>]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:57:56AM -0800, Nikhil Bose wrote:

> Hi John, I was looking at the Berkeley DB documentation from Sleepy
> Cat.  Looks great.  What I couldn't figure out is where they persist
> the database on secondary storage.  They don't seem to use an
> underlying database, so where is the data persisted?  Do they use a
> file or have their own database implementation that uses low-level
> disk IO?

	They use a regular file as backing store.  In most (all?)
	cases the data is memory mapped to speed access, but at the
	end of the day you have a regular file (in Berkeley DB format)
	on disk.  Nothing magic.

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