[ZODB-Dev] On-disk index for FileStorage

[Toby Dickenson]

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 9:08 pm, Greg Ward wrote:
> Many months ago, someone posted a patch that fixed FileStorage so it no
> longer read in its entire index at open(), or wrote it out in one big
> spew at close(), or kept the whole thing in memory all the time.
>
> Who was this?  Is this patch still alive?

are you thinking of jims 'fsindex' patch? it reads the whole index into=20
memory, but uses a nested btree instead of dict to reduce memory linearly=
=2E=20
this is standard in FileStorage now.