[cosmo-dev] a new year, same problem

[Brian Moseley]

On Jan 4, 2008 1:29 PM, Travis Vachon <travis at osafoundation.org> wrote:

> Yeah, this is concrete description of the vague idea behind (2). It
> does make me wonder about how this would be implemented server side,
> though you or Randy probably have a better intuition for that. We'd
> probably need references to copies of an item in each item that is in
> multiple collections, which I believe would eliminate at least some of
> the data partitioning advantages discussed on the wiki.

if the reference is (collection uuid, item uuid), then we have an easy
way to identify item copies across database partitions.