[Zope-dev] FileStorage patch

[Chris Withers]

emf wrote:
> 
> As I currently run 30-60 storage servers on a machine, I would be very
> interested in testing out such a patch, if you'd be willing to send it
> along.

It's in CVS, just check out the appropriate branch:

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> OK, I made a CVS branch, BTreeFSIndex-branch (made from the Zope-2_4-branch),
> for just the BTrees and ZODB directories.  If you update to that branch
> you should get my experimental changes.  The BTrees package has a new
> extension, _fsBTrees that has 2-char to 6-char BTree types.
> 
> The ZODB fsIndex.py provides a FileStorage index based on this BTree.
> You should get a memory consumption of only a little more than 8 bytes
> per object. Note that the file size is limited to about 256 terabytes.
> Nothing is free. :)

cheers,

Chris

PS: Still haven't managed to get the machine resurrected :-(