[Zope] FileSystem Storage

[Pavlos Christoforou]

On Tue, 2 May 2000, John Sutherland wrote:


> 2. amount of time determining which file to open/access.. With only having
> a single file, you don't have to make any desicions. Speed by simplicity.


In a single file one still needs a mechanism to determine location and
access an object. In a filesytem based storage the filesytem will be
responsible of finding the file given its 'id'.

> 
> Do the other advantages of being FS based outwiegh this? I don't know..
> 

I am not sure. Maybe not. Even if there was such an option I don't see how
some useful FS based tools like CVS will play nicely with the transaction
machinery of ZODB. However I am pretty confident that storing parts like
session info, frequently changing property sheets etc, in the current
FileStorage implementation is not very efficient.

pavlos