[Zope] Announce - Audio Product

marc lindahl marc@bowery.com
Thu, 03 May 2001 10:41:26 -0400


> From: Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk>
> 
>> , an index is built of every object inside the ZODB
>> so it that can call it again later, effectively it reads through the entire
>> DB.
> 
> With FileStorage, This only happens if zope is not shut down cleanly.
> 
> A clean shut down will leave a var/Data.fs.index file. On the next
> startup it loads this index if it is present, or scans the whole
> Data.fs if it is not.


The other thing that occurred to me.... this indexing time would depend on
the number of objects, not their size, so it should be the same for the
internally-stored mp3 and an hypothetical externally-stored mp3 with
internal meta...