External SIXX persistance exists. It's currently not part of the
'official' release. It's available at the cincom repository.
BTW, an archive of the mailing list is available at
It appears to me that the only SmallWiki persistence
mechanism
so far is to save the entire image. Is that correct? I'd like
a persistence mechanism a bit more like that of WikiWorks.
Having used WikiWorks for a long time, I'd like to improve upon it.
In particular, file names should be meaningful, and all the versions
of a page should be stored in one file. It should be easy to delete
past history. The file format should make the system very tolerant
of crashes. It should be plain text and easy to edit with any text
editor.
wiki.cs.uiuc.edu has 33 wikis on it. Most of them are small, but at
least three of them have several thousand pages apiece. The image
is over 100 meg, since all pages are stored in memory (like SmallWiki).
When the machine pages, I will buy more memory. It gets several hits
a second, all day long. It runs for several months between reboots.
I need a persistence mechanism that can handle this.
-Ralph Johnson