[ZODB-Dev] Blob directory structure scalability limits
Christian Theune
ct at gocept.com
Thu Jun 19 09:36:57 EDT 2008
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 09:29:13AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>> We propose to introduce a new mode for the blob storage which breaks
>> the
>> directory structure into one level per byte of the oid. This would
>> lead to
>> directories 0x00-0xFF nested in 8 levels.
>
> +1
>
> ...
>
>> We propose to keep both implementations around and allow to select
>> which one
>> to use. We would extend the FileSystemHelper to abstract the two
>> strategies.
>
> -1 to making this selectable.
>
>> We would also provide a migration tool that can convert the old format
>> to the
>> new format.
>
> Maybe we can support, but deprecate the old layout and provide a
> conversion scriptt.
Good for me as well.
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