[Zope-dev] Size of Data.fs - and crypto.
Chris McDonough
chrism@digicool.com
Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:41:10 -0400
> Does the performance of Zope degrade as the Data.fs get larger? Both
> on startup time (which I'm pretty sure will degrade) and on respons
> time, serving a object f ex?
No... Data.fs is only appended to, so I don't think there is any
appreciable seeking latency as it grows. You can probably verify this
by running speed.py (distributed in lib/python/ZODB/test/speed.py)
against a large FileStorage and then against a small one.
>
> Another thing. Have anyone tried to encrypt all data inside the
> Data.fs file? I mean, encrypted the data so that not even root can
> access it, only if you have the right passphrase (or whatever) in the
> management interface are you allowed access to the data.
You'd probably need to rewrite the pickling and unpickling routines used
in lib/python/ZODB/Connection.py to dump and load "encrypted" pickles.