[Zope] Zope file system and scalability

[sree]

Dear Chris,
The product will be a intranet to help a organisation of around 1000 employees (500 
active users ) .
The staff will be able to send work related messages, share files with co workers in the 
team, post data to local bulletin board and use office events calender for scheduleing 
work.
If users start sharing the files then we may allow each user to store 20Mb of files.
500 * 20 mb =10 Gb
I do not require versioning for the file sharing part...

Regards,
  -  sree

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com>
To: sree@indiacares.org
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 08:23:55 +0000
Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope file system and scalability

> 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
>