[Zope] Mounted Databases with ZEO and Zope 2.7.2

[Chris Withers]

Travis Miller wrote:
> we've been using mount points quite extensively on our zope server. 
> basically we have ~30 plone sites running on one zope instance (and 
> expect more).

Wow. Why? ;-)

> object within it, but that would be 20/20 wouldn't it? B-)   ...but, the 
> point is that we solved this by creating a new zope instance with its 
> regular Data.fs file, creating the plone site with the desired id (www) 
> in the root of that db, and then mounting that new Data.fs file, back 
> into the actual zope instance we were working with.

This sounds like the correct thing to do :-)

> so it seems as if the 'mount-point' directive in the zodb_db config 
> indicates where the object is to be placed in the database tree, but 
> also indicates where to pull the object from in the mounted db.

Correct.

> part of 
> finding the object includes walking back up the db tree...(like 
> acquisition?)

No idea what you mean by this.

> obviously this is not a configuration for zeo, but the same seems to 
> still apply when split across a zeo configuration.

What do you mean by this?

Chris

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