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== Introduction == | |||
This page describes the design of a new DataStore implementation that was shipped first in the [[0.84]] (April 2009) Sugar release. | |||
== Goals == | == Goals == | ||
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Metadata for each entry is stored in several files, one per property. In this way, if corruption happened on one those properties, the rest of the entry (and the other entries in the DS) would be unaffected. | Metadata for each entry is stored in several files, one per property. In this way, if corruption happened on one those properties, the rest of the entry (and the other entries in the DS) would be unaffected. | ||
: See [[olpc:Low-level_Activity_API#Meta_Data]]. | |||
=== Queries are accelerated with a disposable database === | === Queries are accelerated with a disposable database === | ||
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value.baseB | value.baseB | ||
value.DB | value.DB | ||
index_updated | |||
version | |||
'''1a''': directory holding entries, it's only function is to avoid having too many directories in a single directory, as this is considered specially harmful on jffs2. | '''1a''': directory holding entries, it's only function is to avoid having too many directories in a single directory, as this is considered specially harmful on jffs2. | ||
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'''index''': directory containing all files that belong to the search database. Can be deleted and recreated from the rest of the DS if needed without incurring in data loss. | '''index''': directory containing all files that belong to the search database. Can be deleted and recreated from the rest of the DS if needed without incurring in data loss. | ||
'''index_updated''': When this file is not present, is because the xapian index is being rebuilt because it cannot be opened. Queries should fall back to display all the files on disk until the index is rebuilt. | |||
'''version''': file that contains the version of the file layout. Currently we are at 1. Is updated when an earlier version is migrated to a newer one. | |||
== Source code == | == Source code == | ||
http:// | http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-datastore | ||