[Zope3-Users] Re: ZODB - ways of storages?

[Chris Withers]

Andreas Elvers wrote:
> Personally I don't like to store big files (pictures and the like) in 
> ZODB. Zope provides you the functionality to store this data outside of
> ZODB (somewhere on the harddrive). Although commonly a reference still 
> exists in ZODB in form of a content object. This content object has the 
> knowledge to access the stored data.

Be careful here, getting transactional semantics right with files _not_ 
in ZODB is hard and not something many people get right...

cheers,

Chris

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