[Zope] Large File Support ?!

Phil Harris phil.harris@zope.co.uk
Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:05:08 -0000


Your advisor was right, most Linuxen sufer from a 2Gb file size limit.

One way to overcome this is to use mountable storages, which you can mount
from different partitions on you linux box.

Search the dev list for comments on mountable storages.

hth

Phil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrei Cenja" <cnj@finsiel.ro>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 8:29 AM
Subject: [Zope] Large File Support ?!


> OK, I'm sorry if this question is gonna prompt bursts of laughter, but
here
> it goes :-)
>
> If I intend to store many files (and large ones, too) into Zope (on RHL7,
> BTW) - something close to a few GBs, it would mean that Zope's database
will
> get to be one several-gigs-large file. Someone warned me of possible
> problems if using very large files under linux. The question is: was he
> right ? How does Zope cope with that ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> Andrei Cenja, Bucharest, Romania.
>
>
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