Re: [boost] Random Access to Files (RAF) - any interest ?

From: Tomas Puverle (Tomas.Puverle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-22 21:08:14

> * Concurrent access - I think this is a key feature. Supporting regular
> files will be good for this as you can support easily concurrent access via
> locking at the expense of performance

What kind of locking do you have in mind?

> * Large file support - A practical approach to this would be to limit the
> support to 64-bit systems, which are starting to be very common and in which
> you don't have mmap issues. Would this be a good idea ?

There are filesystems out there that support 128 bits for file sizes.  So I 
think there needs to be a more general solution.