Henrik Nordstrom pointed out the pread() and pwrite() syscalls which should be supported under Linux. This code now can either use the POSIX AIO calls or the Linux AUFS (user-space threads implementing disk IO) which use pread()/pwrite().
In short; it works, and it works fine.
The trouble now: how to rebuild the store index from disk during startup.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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