michel@digicool.com writes:
Okay, Zope looks *really*, *really* cool. The one thing I *really* wish I could do is to NFS mount or SMB mount the object database onto my file system. Then I wouldn't have to go through the nonsense of uploading graphic files and Zope would automatically interoperate with all of my HTML editing tools.
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The object database is not a filesystem, although I suppose it *could* be made to look like one to a filesystem transport protocol, like NFS or SMB, with vast amounts of effort.
It shouldn't be that much effort. I've recently added a virtual filesystem backend to samba that wraps up all disk accesses into a bunch of function pointers. You get a POSIX file descriptor I/O interface to play with (i.e open/close/read/write calls). The only tricky bit will be reconciling a file descriptor interface with whatever filesystem api Zope has. I tried to work this out but just ended up with a headache as my python skills are quite meagre at the moment. As others have pointed out, the FTP and WebDAV interfaces seem to work pretty well. Regards, Tim.
-Michel
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