oasisprotocol / oasisprotocol/oasis-core

Standardized storage block/page size?

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Description

In filesystems you have the notion of a fixed filesystem block size (different from blockchain blocks), so reads and writes to actual data occur at that granularity.

In our current system, we are operating at the granularity of k/v pairs, which could be of variable size.
The question is, is it worth imposing a standard chunk size?
e.g. we could merge multiple values to a single block, or split a large value into multiple blocks

It depends on the driver, it might be different if we use IPFS vs AWS S3 vs AWS dynamo vs BitTorrent DHT vs libtorrent (edited)

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the storage-driver abstraction and comparing the listed IPFS, AWS S3, AWS Dynamo, BitTorrent DHT, and libtorrent options; done means the project has decided whether to standardize chunk sizes and documented the driver-specific scope.

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Assessment

Tech stack
aws, go
Domain
backend, databases
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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