As an experiment, I started porting zodb to amazon s3 storage a while ago... http://code.google.com/p/s3storage/ You can use it to start zope, but it makes far too many writes inefficiently (it took about 15 minutes for zope2 to create all it's objects on a first start). Now that ec2 comes with static IP addresses, I might end up looking at it again. It needs refactoring to write only one file per transaction (or savepoint), but once done I would imagine it might then offer reasonable performance. Laurence Tim Nash wrote:
The google summer of code is almost underway and already has a lot of good ideas but I was wondering if any of my fellow zope users would have any interest in the following area:
I don't have the skills but I think it would be cool if some student ported Zope to utilize features of the google file system or libferris. Libferris is a virtual file system that mounts just about everything including postgres, xml and OpenOffice docs. If zope ran on the gfs (primarily adding business logic, security and publishing) it would give a boost to the value of any zope based company. Also, I think it would be fun to run map/reduce on my stored objects! A zope that ran on libferris and offered secure publishing of libferris resources would just be cool.
If anybody else thinks this would be useful I will jon the gsoc user list, (even though I'm not a student and I'm not experienced enough with zope to be a mentor) and do my best to make this happen. _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )