[Zope-CMF] ZMF vs ZEO

[Chris Withers]

> > > around via import / export -- they need to be created relative to
> > > the actual directory structure of the machine Zope is running on,
> > > because their *only* persistent attribute is the 'dirpath' of the
> > > directory they point to.

I can't remember, is this absolute or relative to the INSTANCE_HOME or
products directory?

If the former, then I think that's a broken assumption and would explain the
behaviour I saw. One ZEO client was a Windows box with Zope installed in one
file path and the INSTANCE_HOME set up in another. The other client was on a
non-INSTANCE_HOME'd Linux box with, obviously, the filesystem stuff in a
completely different location.

I'm pretty sure the CMF _needs_ to support this kind of arrangement,
especially for multi-machine load balancing, so how do we fix the problem,
if this is it?

cheers,

Chris