[Zope] ZODB and huge database.

[Petru Paler]

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Christopher Petrilli wrote:

> > Has anyone done something about the 2GB datafile limit as found on Linux?
> > (Using multiple Data.fs?)
> 
> Alas, this is a file system limit, and while we've got some ideas about how
> to join multiple Data.fs databases together it's not been implemented
> yet---customer requirements, ya' know.  You could always move to an OS which
> supports larger file systems (since Python on Alpha for example supports
> 64bit FS support).  Or you could do something heretical and store the actual

   ReiserFS (http://devlinux.com/namesys/) has 64-bit file support on
Intel. It's also faster than ext2fs (btree-based).

> file on the file system as an <oid>.storage or something.  This shouldn't be
> hard to do with ZClasses.  This would keep the meta-data in Zope, but let
> you at least use a 2Gb file store (or more depending oh nhow you sorted
> this).

-Petru