Re: Doubt about where leave File objects

En/na Toby Dickenson ha escrit:

>On Tuesday 25 January 2005 17:24, Santi Camps wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>
>>First of all, congratulations for your great work.  DirectoryStorage is 
>>really impresive, a magnific product.   I'm using it intensively in 
>>production and it really works fine.   By now, my great database is 
>>about 6 Gb size and working very well.
>>
>>Despite of this, I've a design doubt of my software.   Nowadays, I'm 
>>storing all Files and its data as objects in ZODB.  In fact, 4.5 Gb of 
>>my 6 Gb database are Files.  It could take a little effort maintain the 
>>Files as objects in ZODB but put its data somewhere in the filesystem.   
>>A change like this one, will improve DirStorage performance in some way 
>>?   I know that it could affect Zope caches and so on, and also is 
>>obvious that packs and backups will take few time, I'm just asking if 
>>this could help DirectoryStorage in its normal work.   Is better to 
>>maintain storages as little as possible ?  Or DirStorage can work with 
>>30 Gb as better as with 6 Gb ?
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>Yes, it does seem a little unnecessary to store files in an object database, 
>then store the objects in files. This cant be solved at the storage level.... 
>All DirectoryStorage sees of the data is opaque pickles. It cant tell which 
>objects contain flat files, rather than more structured data.
>
>There are some moves so solve this at ZODB level. See the thread starting 
>here: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zodb-dev/2005-January/008385.html
>Any features that come out of that work I would like to support in 
>DirectoryStorage too, but that is unlikely to happen without sponsorship or a 
>volunteer :-(
>
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Thanks for your answer.

It sounds interesting.  We can't offer sponsorship by now, I hope be 
able to do it in a near future.  Until that, I can try to help in 
development of DirectoryStorage.  I've few time, but I'm very interested 
into learn more about ZODB, in special about DirectoryStorage.  I'm a 
developer of Zope applications, and my knowledge of 
ZODB/ZEO/DirectoryStorage is just a user knowledge, perhaps and advanced 
user, but not more.   If you think I can help fixing bugs or 
implementing some easy change, let me know.

Regards

Santi Camps




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