I want to use Zope to offer registered visitors to my site a little free webspace on the site. Since I use hosting service that restricts and charges me for space, I would like to restrict the size that their zope folders can consume. Hence: Is there any simple way of limiting the amount of space that a folder is allowed to consume including its subfolders? Alternatively, is there anyway of checking how much space a folder with subfolders consumes? Regards, Brendon ------------------ 70South: the No.1 source for Antarcticles. For the latest news and views on Antarctica visit : http://www.70south.com
Brendon Grunewald wrote:
I want to use Zope to offer registered visitors to my site a little free webspace on the site. Since I use hosting service that restricts and charges me for space, I would like to restrict the size that their zope folders can consume.
Hence: Is there any simple way of limiting the amount of space that a folder is allowed to consume including its subfolders? Alternatively, is there anyway of checking how much space a folder with subfolders consumes?
Short answer: no. Longer Answer: Not under thattype of setup, There ar emethods that could be used now to do this, but the ones I come up with off the top of my head require system level access. -- Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are easy to annoy, and have the root password.
Hello! ZODB (like any other filesystem-like storage) should has "qouta" support. But while it is not implemented I'd like to hear your recipe. On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Bill Anderson wrote:
Brendon Grunewald wrote:
I want to use Zope to offer registered visitors to my site a little free webspace on the site. Since I use hosting service that restricts and charges me for space, I would like to restrict the size that their zope folders can consume.
Hence: Is there any simple way of limiting the amount of space that a folder is allowed to consume including its subfolders? Alternatively, is there anyway of checking how much space a folder with subfolders consumes?
Short answer: no.
Longer Answer: Not under thattype of setup, There ar emethods that could be used now to do this, but the ones I come up with off the top of my head require system level access.
Oleg. (All opinions are mine and not of my employer) ---- Oleg Broytmann Foundation for Effective Policies phd@phd.russ.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
Oleg Broytmann wrote:
Hello!
ZODB (like any other filesystem-like storage) should has "qouta" support. But while it is not implemented I'd like to hear your recipe.
I don't beleive ZODB is a 'filesystem-like' storage, as it is an Object Database. The problem (well, one of them anyway ;) would be determining just how much 'space' a given object is consuming. Now, what I am doing, is to use the Mountable Database (?) product to mount a given client's site on. I then calculate storage based upon the size of that particular Data.fs, and then: o let the fs handle the quota for the user --or-- o run cron jobs to monitor size of the Data,fs-es, and notify me of any over a specified limit. I have the two methods because I offer varying levels of server options; some have user accounts, others do not. I am migrating to ZEO, but am currently experiencing some difficulty with the aforementioned product, but will soon have a new one to take the place. :-) Bill -- Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are easy to annoy, and have the root password.
Thanks! On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Bill Anderson wrote:
Now, what I am doing, is to use the Mountable Database (?) product to mount a given client's site on. I then calculate storage based upon the size of that particular Data.fs, and then:
o let the fs handle the quota for the user --or-- o run cron jobs to monitor size of the Data,fs-es, and notify me of any over a specified limit.
I have the two methods because I offer varying levels of server options; some have user accounts, others do not.
I am migrating to ZEO, but am currently experiencing some difficulty with the aforementioned product, but will soon have a new one to take the place. :-)
Oleg. (All opinions are mine and not of my employer) ---- Oleg Broytmann Foundation for Effective Policies phd@phd.russ.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
Brendon Grunewald wrote:
I want to use Zope to offer registered visitors to my site a little free webspace on the site. Since I use hosting service that restricts and charges me for space, I would like to restrict the size that their zope folders can consume.
Hence: Is there any simple way of limiting the amount of space that a folder is allowed to consume including its subfolders? Alternatively, is there anyway of checking how much space a folder with subfolders consumes?
I set something up like this for myself at imeme.net (minus the file limits) its basically just a simple zodb based remote file storage for friends. basically to do it you can't let your visitors have access to your manage screens. example implementation. create a folder called filesystem stick all your adding and managing methods in filesystem add a size limit property to filesystem for each user create a folder under filesystem. that folder should probably have a property called current_size basically you're going to have forms for people uploading a file. on the page where you would do the manage_addFile stuff you're going to implement the logic. check size of the file with _.len(file) on the form submit page and add to current_size see if its above the limit. if it is don't add tell the user why. if it isn't add it update the current_size on the directory. voila. here's some sample code which does the basics of getting file info without the management logic to get you started. it pretty prints a table of file info. <table align="center" border="1"> <tr><th colspan="4"><dtml-var id> Directory Contents</th></tr> <tr><td>File Name</td><td>Type</td><td>Size</td><td>TimeStamp</td></tr> <dtml-in "objectItems(['File', 'Image'])"> <dtml-with sequence-item> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('DirectorySize', DirectorySize+size)"> <tr> <td><a href="<dtml-var sequence-key>"><dtml-var sequence-key></a></td> <td><dtml-var content_type></td> <td><dtml-var size></td> <td><dtml-var bobobase_modification_time></td> </tr> </dtml-with> </dtml-in> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('DirectorySize', DirectorySize/1000)"> <tr><td colspan="4">Total Directory Size: <dtml-var DirectorySize>K</td></tr> </table>
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One thing I considered doing was using 2.2's mountable databases for something like this. Give each user their own database (possibly without undo information) and use a cron job to check file sizes. If you have root on the box, you could create users id's for each user and use quota on the filesystem to handle quota checking for you. Of course, this wouldn't be horribly practical for a *lot* of users. -Otto. Kapil Thangavelu wrote:
Brendon Grunewald wrote:
I want to use Zope to offer registered visitors to my site a little free webspace on the site. Since I use hosting service that restricts and charges me for space, I would like to restrict the size that their zope folders can consume.
Hence: Is there any simple way of limiting the amount of space that a folder is allowed to consume including its subfolders? Alternatively, is there anyway of checking how much space a folder with subfolders consumes?
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