[Zope] FYI: large files & linux.

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> The claim of "a days hacking" was meant as an ironic counterclaim to it being 
> a day's job on *BSD

   Oops, didn't get it, sorry :)

> I would suggest it by implementing a file-like HugeSplitFile class and 
> using that to hide all the splitting from all other layers. 
> 
> If we could implement it in python then it would be perhaps a 1-hour job, 
> leaving the rest of the day for fixing up the parts of zope interfacing 
> with it ;)
> 
> It would probably consist mostly of adding long() to some initialisation 
> functions.

   All sounds good...

Oleg.
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