[Zope] advice needed

[Dieter Maurer]

gabecker@indiana.edu writes:
 > I am relatively new to Zope, but I plan to use it for an image database
 > system that I need to make for scientific purposes.  What I have in mind
 > is to store the actual images externally in files (since there will be
 > many and large files), and the info about the image (where collected,
 > owner, codes etc etc) in a database like MySQL. Zope would form the
 > interface.
Good!

 > My first question is what would be a suitable way to go from here: use
 > LocalFS or ExtImage for storage of many files (think of 50,000 or so)? I
 > will need to be able to differentiate between users: ie not every user
 > should have access to all files.
We went for "ExtImage" and up to now made good experience.


Dieter