Re: [PATCH JGIT] Allow writeObject() write to OutputStream

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mar 13, 2009, 15:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20090313150806.GE22920@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <1236844931-12807-1-git-send-email-j16sdiz+freenet@gmail.com>

"Daniel Cheng (aka SDiZ)" <j16sdiz+freenet@gmail.com> wrote:

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> This patch make factor out the object writing code in ObjectWriter,
> allow it to write to any OutputStream. 
> Subclass class may then override
>   writeObject(final int type, long len, InputStream is, boolean store)
> to make it write to alternative locations.
> 
> There are some discussion on devl@freenetproject.org to use raw 
> (uncompressed) object to freenet. This patch allow the testing.

Ok, I understand the code as-is, but I'm not sure I understand the reasoning for the change, or where you are trying to go with it.

Are you guys talking about making every object a loose object on freenet, and avoiding pack files? Or making a form of JGit that access a Repository directly stored on freenode?

I ask because there's some folks starting to talk about putting JGit
onto a distributed hash table sort of system like Hadoop HBase,
to allow the underlying storage to scale efficiently for really
big hosting sites.  I would rather see a pooling of effort here
than folks going in different directions.

-- 
Shawn.