Hi all, Yesterday I put up a new proposal on the http://dev.zope.org site that documents my vision of PersistentBlob. The main idea is the be able to mark blocks of strings (text or binary) content for storage in a file system as individual files. (Or blobs in a relation table.) The two motivations for this are keeping a ZODB FileStorage small and exposing blocks of string content to external processes (i.e. full-text indexing). Thanks for taking a look. John -- John D. Heintz DataChannel, Inc. Senior Engineer 512-633-1198 jheintz@isogen.com