[Zope] Zope file system and scalability

[Chris Withers]

sree wrote:
> 
> I am trying to build a huge extranet using zope where there will be
> large amount of messageing and file shareing.

You probably want to define that more.

> How scalable is Zope object file system.

very, depending on the context.

> I was told zope has to keep
> complete zope data.fs in memory so as to work. Is this true.

Nope, that's bollocks.

> Are there
> any further reference articles on this.

Yeah, try Googling for ZODB and see if you can find Jim's white paper.

> As part of the project i need to enable users to upload the work files
> such as StarOffice clac files, word documents and pdf. If they use to
> file object in zope then the file gets embedded to zope data.fs making
> it enormously huge. 

How "enormously huge"?

> Is this preferable. or should i try loacl fs. Any
> help in this will be of immence value.

Depends, do you want the versioning that ZODB provides?

Chris