[Zope] ZODB size?

[Jay, Dylan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug McNaught [mailto:doug@mcnaught.org]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 05:01
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] ZODB size?
> 
> 
> Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com> writes:
> 
> > ZODB3 is limited to 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 objects.  
> This should be
> > adequate.
> 
> [...]
>  
> > You will run into the 2GB ext2 file size limit long before 
> you have any
> > other problems.
> 
> So if I'm planning to serve out large data items (which, stored
> together, would push the ZODB over the 2GB limit) for download, I
> should create a mechanism to keep the actual data in the filesystem?
> Has anyone done this?

I created a basic mechanism that serves up all my large files. My
requirements might be little different than yours. The main problem I was
trying to solve was to have mirroring of large files at different locations.
I wanted to use Zope and the Zope security model to restrict what could be
downloaded. How I did this was to use a one-time token that last for about
10 mins. This token is created inside zope and used in a redirection to the
approriate webserver. A simple python script authenticated the token and
served up the file if the token checked out. 

This solution is one that is transparent to Zope but if anyone's interested
I might be able to package it up somewhat.