[Zope] ZODB size limitations?

Marc Lindahl marc at bowery.com
Fri Nov 7 19:31:25 EST 2003


I think to have data.fs >2GB you still have to build python with large 
file support?

Also, beware that often the /tmp or /usr/tmp directory is on a small 
partition and that limits the size of any one uploaded  object.

On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 05:28  PM, J Cameron Cooper wrote:

>
>> There are file size limitations in some OS's (I think Linux is 2GB).
>> 150,000 objects is no biggy and if it grew to 500,000, you would 
>> still be
>> fine.
>>
> Only if you have a very old one.
>
> Linux 2.4 with, say, XFS can do up to 64TB, and I'd be very impressed 
> if you can afford one of those. Later with 64-bit block devices it'll 
> become something like 9 million TB.
>
> Of course, the maximum filesystem size is only 2TB, which is something 
> of a wet blanket, but that'll change. If you need to work around it, I 
> suppose you can use DirectoryStorage.
>
>             --jcc
>
>
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