[Zope] experience w/ filestorage mount points? maximum?

[Chris Withers]

Christoph Berendes wrote:
> Why so many, in separate files, you ask...
> 
> 1. why not? (what's the cost/risk of multiple Data.fs files and mount 
> points), hmmm?

Because it's not a common use case, so you end up pushing limits and 
bumping into bugs that no-one else cares about ;-)

> 2. makes it easy to move a single client site between instances and 
> servers (we don't yet know how load is going to mount up, and whether 
> we'll need to set up a new server at, say, 30 sites, or 100, or ...)

zexp

> 3. site import/export doesn't work as well, and it seems that 
> import/export of "large" Zope objects is deprecated...

huh? rubbish. What specific problems have you had?

> 4. I'm told that, occasionally, Data.fs become corrupted. 

I've yet to see that in 5 years of extensive ZODB use, other than by 
hardware failure, in which case you're screwed however you have things 
set up ;-)

> We have some 
> protection if that happens, since it should (I'd think) affect only one 
> client, not many.

Nah, the stuff you're worried about will trash multiple mounted storages 
just as well as one big one ;-)

> I'm very interested in answers to #1 (things that will make me regret 
> our current strategy)

The biggest risk is that you'll be the only person who cares if things 
go wrong because of that setup...

Chris

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