[Zope] FileSystem Storage (was: Re: [Zope] Zope's scalability across multiple web servers)

[Jason Spisak]

Michael:


> > >
> >  Okay.  I get it.  So if the files system took care of the
> > journaling/transaction end of things then that would close that hole?
> 
> AFAIK. In theory. 
> 
> > > I beleive that this tradeoff (transactional integrity vs. efficient
> > > writes) would be made irrelevant if the FS in question was either
> > > ReiserFS or the IRIX Journalling FS, but I don't really know enough
> > > about either to be certain.
> > 
> > Is there currently a Product that uses the filesystem like you are talking
> > about?  FSSession?
> 
> Yes, FSSession stores session info on the FS.

I'll have a look.  I don't know jack about low level filesystem stuff, but 
maybe a cross between FSSession and LocalFS with an XFS/ReiserFS is what
I'm thinking about.

> 
> >  Is there a product to store the all my ZClass instances
> > let's say on the file system right now?
> 
> Not that I'm aware of, however there is a product that will store and
> access certain file-like objects from the FS: LocalFS. In fact, it has a
> very cool feature that instantiates .xml files as XMLDocuments when
> they're retrieved from the FS, so you can do things like display a tree
> of the nodes within an XML file inside the Zope management interface.

That sounds fantastic.  

Thanks again,

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