[Zope-dev] Proposal for optimized Blob handling

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:31:25PM +0100, Christian Theune wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 14:01 -0300 schrieb Sidnei da Silva:
> > What exactly do you mean by 'link'? As in 'soft links'? The uploaded
> > file usually is a temporary file, so you are saying you would create a
> > soft link on the 'blobs' directory to a file in the $TMP directory? Or
> > maybe the other way around?
> 
> No, I'd create a new hard link into the blob directory so the link to
> the temporary file can go away without making the inode go away. For the
> purposes of storing blobs the TMP directory should be on the same
> partition as the blobs directory anyway.

I like the idea, but what will you do if this fails? (eg. the admin
has put TMP on a different mount, or we're running on Windows).

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Paul Winkler
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