Guido van Rossum [guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US] wrote: > Someone has asked me for a dbm clone that can store 16M keys of 350 > bytes each, and runs on Linux, HPUX, and NT. That's 5.6 Gigabyte in > keys alone! I presume most classic approaches won't cut it since > total file size is typicall limited by the seek system call, internal > data structures and/or file index format to 2Gb (signed longs) or 4Gb > (unsigned longs). > > Does anyone have an idea where to start looking? Would a Python > extension already exist? Assuming you mean an interface to a ddbm-style situation, you could easily use berkeley DB, I belive it is limited in the 4TB range... Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli@amber.org
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