Fwd: [Zope] zope on google file system

Tim Nash thedagdae at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 23:06:05 EDT 2008


Does localfs work with virtual file systems? Is there a zope mapping
product that maps zope to a distributed file system? What is the best
way to run map/reduce on xml files that are stored in the zodb?
Thanks,
Tim


On 3/26/08, Andrew Milton <akm at theinternet.com.au> wrote:
> +-------[ Tim Nash ]----------------------
> | On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> | > Tim Nash wrote:
> | > > I don't have the skills but I think it would be cool if some
> | > > student ported Zope to utilize features of the google file system or
> | > > libferris. Libferris is a virtual file system that mounts just about
> | > > everything including postgres, xml and OpenOffice docs.
> | >
> | > Where are you thinking of plugging Zope into this storage layer?
> | >
> | Something like this:
> | Apache -> zope (business logic, security) -> libferris along with ZODB
> |
> | Perhaps making all libferris resources url addressable within zope.
> | However Postgres and other databases would be better off getting
> | accessed through zsql.
> |
> | Perhaps also make all ZODB objects published as libferris resources.
>
> Perhaps I can point you here;
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/localfs/
>
> or one of a dozen other FS<->Zope mapping products...
> or ORM products
> or ...
>
> There's even code out there that maps .zip files as folders...
>
> --
> Andrew Milton
> akm at theinternet.com.au
>


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