• bluesheep@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      Screw multiple files, just use one big one. Just append anything you want to add and you’ll have everything in 1 spot

      • rbos@lemmy.caEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Makes sense. Then you can add some kind of index to the file so you can jump to the parts you want. Just track a list of chunks, so they don’t have to be contiguous.

        • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Yeah, and we could give that huge file some kind of internal and logical structure to find those chunks, maybe something hierarchical with human readable names!

          • rbos@lemmy.caEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Yeah! Now we’re cooking! I bet we could really improve resiliency and seek times with different data structures, too. B trees?