On Tue, 2 May 2000, John Sutherland wrote:
2. amount of time determining which file to open/access.. With only having a single file, you don't have to make any desicions. Speed by simplicity.
In a single file one still needs a mechanism to determine location and access an object. In a filesytem based storage the filesytem will be responsible of finding the file given its 'id'.
Do the other advantages of being FS based outwiegh this? I don't know..
I am not sure. Maybe not. Even if there was such an option I don't see how some useful FS based tools like CVS will play nicely with the transaction machinery of ZODB. However I am pretty confident that storing parts like session info, frequently changing property sheets etc, in the current FileStorage implementation is not very efficient. pavlos