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- 'Stage-Alpha' |
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- 'Type-Storage' |
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summary: Experimental map store optimized for small incremental changes |
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This is an experimental storage driver where changed data is appended. |
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Data is simply written as `key = value` pairs to the end of the file. |
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This allows changes to individual keys to be written without needing to |
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write out the entire object again, but reads would grow gradually larger |
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as it still needs to read old overwritten keys. This may be suitable for |
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e.g. rosters where individual contacts are changed at a time. In theory, |
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this could also allow rolling back changes. |
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Requires 0.10 |