[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #633: lease-expiring share crawler

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#633: lease-expiring share crawler
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 Reporter:  warner        |           Owner:  warner
     Type:  task          |          Status:  new   
 Priority:  major         |       Milestone:  1.4.0 
Component:  code-storage  |         Version:  1.3.0 
 Keywords:                |   Launchpad_bug:        
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Comment(by zooko):

 Yeah, if the common operations are just appending an SI to a set, and
 consuming an entire set, then you could easily implement this with each
 set being a file instead of a directory of 0-length files.  Open the file
 and append the (binary, fixed-length) SI to it to add the element the set.
 Read through the whole file, processing each SI, and then rm it to consume
 the set.

 It isn't so easy to *remove* an element from a set, but we don't really
 need to do that for this application, and if we do need to do it it isn't
 that hard -- you just have to scan the whole file to find the SI you want
 to remove.

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