Jason Spisak wrote:
Michael Bernstein:
statistically it should even out with as many 'up' moderations being discarded accidentally as 'down' ones.
Is it because there is no locking?
Yes.
Okay. I get it. So if the files system took care of the journaling/transaction end of things then that would close that hole?
AFAIK. In theory.
I beleive that this tradeoff (transactional integrity vs. efficient writes) would be made irrelevant if the FS in question was either ReiserFS or the IRIX Journalling FS, but I don't really know enough about either to be certain.
Is there currently a Product that uses the filesystem like you are talking about? FSSession?
Yes, FSSession stores session info on the FS.
Is there a product to store the all my ZClass instances let's say on the file system right now?
Not that I'm aware of, however there is a product that will store and access certain file-like objects from the FS: LocalFS. In fact, it has a very cool feature that instantiates .xml files as XMLDocuments when they're retrieved from the FS, so you can do things like display a tree of the nodes within an XML file inside the Zope management interface. HTH, Michael Bernstein.