Important Safety Tip: If you haven't yet realized, it was the topic of creating a ZOPE Storage based on a file system (such as ReiserFS) that generated a now immortal cautionary note. In response to Jim Fulton's "assurance" that while conceptually possible, the task could prove "a tad tricky", http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-December/002682.html to which Michel Pelletier replied, 'When Jim [Fulton] says "tricky" it means your brain could explode.' http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-December/002701.html now also: http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/quotations/python-quotes.html Later, Jerry S.