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author | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2021-04-24 09:28:44 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2021-04-24 16:10:02 -0400 |
commit | 4492b8e066570fd841fff5528100e8197645c85e (patch) | |
tree | 69a5b4b61d3155b7997ce54a41b0b98f92b16716 /Documentation | |
parent | 15a3ec65a3ad0c1dcd686c2075d3f68730d416de (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Documentation/lei_design_notes.txt b/Documentation/lei_design_notes.txt index a5606c05..f1d2ab6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/lei_design_notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/lei_design_notes.txt @@ -18,3 +18,15 @@ SQLite, and Xapian across multiple processes. The coupling of IMAP and NNTP network latency to local storage is a current weakness of public-inbox-watch. Therefore, -watch will likely adopt the daemon architecture of lei in the future. + +Read/write vs read-only storage +------------------------------- + +public-inboxes are intended to be written and read by different +Unix users. Commonly, a single Unix user or group will write to +a public-inbox, but the inbox will be served by a user with +read-only permissions (e.g. "www-data" or "nobody"). + +lei/store is intended to be read and written by a single user, +thus we can rely on the Write-Ahead-Log journal of SQLite to +improve performance: <https://sqlite.org/wal.html> |