[ZODB-Dev] zodb best practices

[Jimmie Houchin]

Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:46:52PM -0500, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> 
>>Are there any significant advantages or disadvantages to either 
>>maintaining a large dataset in a single db or dividing it into multiple 
>>much smaller dbs?
> 
> 
> Several of my Filestorages (Data.fs) have peaked around 3 GB.
> I have not seen any performance issues with these that I could
> blame on the database.
> 
> However, keep in mind that a single multi-gigabyte file is
> quite unwieldy for making backups, and for examination to
> try to fix corruption if something disastrous happens...
> Both of these have been issues for me.
> 
> You might look at DirectoryStorage running on reiserfs, which
> should scale to much larger sizes.

Hello Paul,

Thanks for the advise. I'll take a look into it. As I am already running 
ReiserFS it wouldn't be difficult. :)

Jimmie Houchin