+// encodePosition writes place into the first positionBytes bytes of record.
+func encodePosition(record []byte, place Position) {
+ binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(record[0:], place.day)
+ binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(record[4:], place.length)
+ binary.LittleEndian.PutUint64(record[8:], place.offset)
+}
+
+// decodePosition reads a position from the first positionBytes bytes of record.
+func decodePosition(record []byte) Position {
+ return Position{
+ day: binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(record[0:]),
+ length: binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(record[4:]),
+ offset: binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(record[8:]),
+ }
+}
+
+// Records is a file of fixed-size Records, numbered from 0. Record n starts at
+// byte n*size. A record that was never written reads as zeros. An index is data
+// that the day files can give again, so Records cuts a partial record at the
+// end of the file.
+type Records struct {
+ file *os.File
+ size int
+ count int
+}
+