[Zope] some advice for a news site

Shane Hathaway shane@webacademics.com
Thu, 02 Dec 1999 21:24:30 +0000


Karl Fast wrote:
> The only thing to watch out for is the 2GB file size limit on Linux.
> The ZODB is one big file, and it's not always tightly packed, so
> 100MB of data will take up more space on disk.
> 
> This is a limitation of the ext2 filesystem, so it's a linux thing,
> not a zope thing. I haven't come anywhere near to hitting this wall,
> so I don't know what, if any, workarounds there are to this.

A relatively easy workaround would be to use ReiserFS, which should
handle a lot more.  http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs


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