[Zope] ZODB performance via direct disk writes

Rob Garrett eagle@phc.igs.net
Wed, 1 Sep 1999 19:09:55 -0400 (EDT)


this would basically require creating a zope filesystem, and would have to
be ported to each individual system.. yuch..

RobG

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Christopher Petrilli wrote:

> > Would there be any performance gain from having ZODB3 access a raw io device
> > instead of using a filesystem, as can be done in FreeBSD for example?
> 
> While it might THEORETICALLY be possible to beat the file system, it's also
> non-portable, a headache, painful and all-together a bad idea.  Even Oracle
> no longer requires this.  There are 10000000 other places to focus
> optimization :-)
> 
> Chris
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