That newfangled Journal thing

Posted Nov 21, 2011 20:24 UTC (Mon) by nteon (subscriber, #53899)
In reply to: That newfangled Journal thing by SEJeff
Parent article: That newfangled Journal thing

protocol buffers are designed for inter-message compaction, while it seems like their on-disk format is designed for intra-message compaction (string de-duplication, etc). Although protocol buffers + gzip might work just fine.