[Zope-dev] ZODB DA?

[Patrick Phalen]

[Jim Fulton, on Tue, 14 Dec 1999]

:: Would you imagine using the reiserfs as a ZODB storage?
:: If one was going to use a file system as an object store, 
:: then the reiserfs would be attractive due to it's effective
:: support for small files. Is this what you had in mind?

exactly; and its support for journalling

:: The ZODB has a well-defined "storage interface" that should
:: make implementation of a reiserfs- (or just an fs-) 
:: based storage reasonably straightforward, although getting
:: transactional sematics right might be a tad tricky.

yes

I posted to the list about this later, but to repeat in this context
-- I asked Hans Reiser about this and he had this to say:

"""
Patrick, I think what you say has a lot of merit, and the areas in
which we are extending our functionality will make this easier and
easier over time.  Features in our next version like item handlers,
inheritance, lightweight files/objects, stem compression of filenames,
etc., are all aimed at making this more feasible for folks like you to
use us as a bottom layer.  We would be more than happy to do work on
the FS to accomodate your needs for this.

That said, don't underestimate the scope of the task, it is a big one, and it is
hard for me to promise specific features you will need on a short term basis, I
can only say that what you want is in the scope of our long-term vision.  I can
also say that we welcome all good patches.
"""