[TUHS] YP / NIS / NIS+ / LDAP

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Wed Nov 7 18:58:57 AEST 2018


Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> The caches worked across reboots.  I left not long after we completed 1.0,
> Bob Mende (RIP) and some other folks took the mmap based dbm (I called
> mdbm) and put locks in each page so you could have multiple writers.
> That code made its way to yahoo and just got used for everything, they
> made it C++ (not a fan of that but whatever) and evolved it farther than
> I ever imagined.  They had DBs that were 100's of gigs ~20 years ago.
> They open sourced their stuff.

Any idea where to find this now?

Thanks,

Arnold



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