[Zope] Zope file system and scalability

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Mon, 04 Feb 2002 09:43:00 +0000


sree wrote:
> 
> Dear Chris,
> The staff will be able to send work related messages, share files with co workers in the
> team, post data to local bulletin board and use office events calender for scheduleing
> work.

Sounds like you want a mail server ;-)

This actually sounds like a job for MS Exchange or Lotus Notes rather than Zope.

> If users start sharing the files then we may allow each user to store 20Mb of files.
> 500 * 20 mb =10 Gb
> I do not require versioning for the file sharing part...

*shrugs* That's big for a Data.fs, but not that big.
Personally, I'd use LocalFS or DocumentLibrary to store the stuff on the FS.

cheers,

Chris