[Zope] ZODB performance via direct disk writes

[Andreas Kostyrka]

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Christopher Petrilli wrote:

> > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Rob Garrett wrote:
> > 
> >> this would basically require creating a zope filesystem, and would have to
> >> be ported to each individual system.. yuch..
> > Not really. This would basically require a symlink from Data.fs to
> > /dev/yourdevice, and a bit of massaging (backup files?) in ZODB.
> 
> I can say pretty definately that as much as people want to talk about this,
> there's no plans anywhere in the future to do this.  If someone wants to do
> this, this is a good community project, but I can think of dozens of other
> places where huge performance bonuses could be gained before this kind of
> micro-optimization will ever make an impact.  Caching offsets this a huge
> amount.
I didn't say that it makes sense. I just negated that it is unportable.

Andreas
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