[Zope] Storing many large objects in many folders

[Oliver Bleutgen]

Christoph Schmitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to store many large objects (30+MB video files) in a way that 
> Zope can serve them; plus, these files should be distributed over a 
> large folder tree /mytree/... in my Zope system. 


I really wouldn't do this. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but serving 
such big files blocks one of only 4 (per-default) of zopes worker threads.
This means that 4 concurrent downloads make it impossible for someone 
else to get to your server, because there are no idle threads left to serve.
Put them on the filesystem, serve them through an external server and 
just store the metadata (including the path to the file) in the ZODB.
There is a product called mmmanager (or something) which does something 
similar IIRC like you seem to want.

cheers,
oliver