[Zope] Hardware for Zope + ZEO

Andreas Jung Andreas Jung <lists@andreas-jung.com>
Wed, 29 Jan 2003 06:54:49 +0100


--On Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2003 13:44 +0900 Wankyu Choi <wankyu@neoqst.com> 
wrote:

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> 3. I'm looking towards the Directory Storage over File Storate for tons of
> reasons, the reasons you might easily guess. I'll have six 73G disks with
> RAID5, which means I'd have to let go 73G for storing parity information.
> That leaves me about 365G. At least 300G will be allocated for ZODB. Would
> FileStorage maintain its integrity if the db grows to 300G? What I'm
> worried about most is that I can't make it versionless. Directory Storage
> has that option. Comments?

With 300GB you are at the point where I would think about a RDBMS as
backend. I assume maintaining or packing a 300GB Data.fs might be a
pain (20-30GB are already hard to handle).

-aj