From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2007-03-05T03:23:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Design question - mmap, insert/delete editing on huge binary files?

Bill Kelly wrote:
> If anyone has thoughts about weak points of this design or
> how to improve it, your feedback is most welcome.
Pardon my ignorance in this area...

1. It seems like this will cause quite a bit of data fragmentation 
quickly (slowing down reads).
2. Once you've made the edit in swap space, you still have to persist 
the binary to the filesystem, no? And that's fixed block size, correct?

Devin