Re: cdb Fast Lookup

Gustavo Vieira Gonçalves Coelho Rios <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Aug 2002 22:38:14 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.cdb
Organization Alstom Transport Information Solution
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> Gustavo Vieira Gonçalves Coelho Rios <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > I guess no one of you has gotten what i mean!  If you have more than a
> > register mapping to the same hash, you are in trouble!!!!!
> 
> > It won't be possible to direct access to the register. This will require
> > you to probe for the correct slot!
> 
> Yes, and...?  I don't see the problem.  (Maybe you're missing that one
> disk read doesn't mean only one hash slot?)
> 
> --
> Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

"Effective" disk read is a block of the file system!!!!!!
No more no less! And if you wish, you may use mmap.