On 2 May 2000 14:15:02 -0500, Jason Spisak wrote:
Jonothan:
I'm not sure if you have been folowing the thread between Michael B. and myself, but I would love your insight.
How far away from being an alternative form of storage for Zope is LocalFS? I'm talking ZClass instances mostly. A robust data storage facility for Zope objects in files rather than a sigle large file. With the RIPP (ZPattern and the like) the backend is going to cease to make a difference to propertysheets, and having the local filesystem (XFS/ReiserFS) for write intensive stuff is a must have for Zope.
Just wondering what your opinion on it is.
As long as the data is *only* changed from inside Zope, it shouldn't be a large problem. I wrote a few dumb 'LocalFS'-type file-system products which are queryable (and mineable) and also return ZRDB Results objects, including a couple of folderish directory classes which can be easily walked via dtml-tree. However, there is a big problem with object caching if you plan on a: caching and b: updating via the filesystem. I never did figure a way around those problems.