Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
For data stores that are large and contain a lot of small entries, the overhead of the current file cache is quite large: at least one file per entry is needed. For most file systems, that means 4 KB per entry. If entries are much smaller (e.g. 30 bytes), the overhead is large.
We could instead use a read-only key-value store for such entries.