[Zope] ZEO with Multiple Storages

[Dieter Maurer]

Brian Brinegar wrote at 2006-9-13 21:22 -0400:
> ... partioning large data sets onto different storages ...
>First off, does this make any sense?

I makes sense and we do it successfully with our large editorial
system.


However, ensure that each storage is self contained data wise:

  e.g. do not put data in one storage and have them catalogued
  in a different one.

Otherwise, selective backup of individual storages will introduce
inconsistencies.

>Is it worth pursuing?

Yes.

>Secondly, I 
>assume that where an object is stored does not limit what other objects 
>it can access in a transaction (e.g. object A could add a property to 
>object B if they were in different storages) because all changes would 
>occur in a client. (this ties into the single transaction committing to 
>multiple storages)

Right.



-- 
Dieter