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I remember reading somewhere that webmasterworld is not using a database to store posts, rather it is thread based.
the main *problem* with a file based system is file locking I presume, in general what method is used to overcome this? Is this the reason that after one posts they are notified of the post being inserted and then a redirect? (as the system has to pause for a file to potentially unlock itself during writes etc?)
