DatastoreOpenIssues

Activity intermediate-level API

• How we pass around the data in files?
• checkout/checkin model
• activities want to directly work with removable devices (security?)
• update objects without creating a new version
• data types in the metadata (properties in namespaces?)
• special properties that the DS need to know about
• versions use a composite key?
• express hierarchy (just one level?) object spaces?
• query available space
• how can we assure atomicity in multi-document updates?

DatastoreInternals

• Diff-based storage to minimize disk use when storing many versions? Ben 13:08, 21 January 2008 (EST)

How do you store a diff if the entry is a .tar.gz of many files?

Some activities will produce entries that are not amenable to generalized diff algorithms, but can be stored efficiently by domain-specific diff algorithms (e.g. Paint and png files). How can Activities register to handle their own differential compression, or how will type-specific diff be implemented?

Journal

• Need support from the DS to implement date scrolling?