Re: WORM and Read Only Tables (v0.1)

On 11/12/2007, Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 14:58 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> > Ühel kenal päeval, T, 2007-12-11 kell 13:44, kirjutas Csaba Nagy:
> > >> Then put the active chunk on a high performance file system and the
> > > archive tablespace on a compressed/slow/cheap file system and you're
> > > done. Allow even the archive chunk to be updateable, and put new tuple
> > > data in the active chunk. It would work just fine for cases where the
> > > old data is rarely updated/deleted...
> >
> > You can't update a table on a read-only (write-once) partition, at least
> > not with current header structure.
>
> OK, but that's what I'm challenging, why do you need a write once
> partition ? You mean by that tapes ? OK, it means I was thinking in
> completely different usage scenarios then...
>
> Cheers,
> Csaba.
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>
I think DVD or CD would make sence, Tapes have an added limitation of being
sequential access only.

Peter Childs