I don't see how a smaller ZODB is a happier ZODB.... ? Keeping them in ZODB makes your site alot easier to back up! And, they take up basically the same amount of disk space on the FS or in the ZODB. If you use BTreeFolders, you could store 1000's of them in one folder (if that makes sense for you)... depending on your file system, that might be a problem on the FS.
From: "Andy McKay" <andym@ActiveState.com> Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 18:47:44 -0700 To: "marc lindahl" <marc@bowery.com>, "Bill Anderson" <bill@libc.org>, <zope@zope.org> Subject: Re: [Zope] Announce - Audio Product
Somehow keeping large static files in the ZODB just doesnt seem to gel for me.
I know it fits the lots of reads / few writes model, put somehow making my Data.fs bloat on account of mp3's seems wrong. I would (in fact do http://www.agmweb.ca/agmweb/dna/dan) put my mp3's on the file system through LocalFS. Makes my ZODB much smaller and happier.
Plus I have them on the file system for other uses (like listening to them),
Cheers. -- Andy McKay.