File Buffering Questions ...

[Ben Duncan]

Ohhh .. developing an ICE CREAM headache from writing my MVISAM database.
It's too bad some of the more advance stuff is making sense now, 'cause
I cannot plead ignorance on mistakes.

Anway, thought I would run this past the REAL experts.

When dealing with multiple open/access on the SAME file from within MVISAM module,
should I share the already allocated cache/buffers for that file, or would it
be more prudent to allocate each file descriptor it's own set of buffers?

Each fd will have a minimum cache of 4 - 4K buffers (A node is 4K bytes). There is
a place in the Super Block to specify "Buffering" for additional allocation of
buffers.

Thanks ...

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