[Zope-dev] ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.4.0 alpha 1 released

[Shane Hathaway]

sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
> 
> My impression is that FileStorage implements a 32-bit id-type-thingy
> somewhere (look at ZODB docs, I think there is something about this
> somewhere), which limits it (in addition to the Linux kernel ext2 fs limit),
> to < 2GB.  With 7.5 GB, I'd use a more advanced storage like the new - well,
> not quite released ;) - Berkeley (libdb3 based) storages, though I haven't
> tried anything like that myself...

Berkeley is a good recommendation.

> Does anyone have any comments on the reliability of PartitionedFileStorage
> in this regard as a temporary solution?  Is anyone using
> PartitionedFileStorage in a production environment?

AFAIK no.  Its functionality has already been superceded.

Shane