[Zope] Re: [lazug] Zope Serving Linux File System

Kapil Thangavelu k_vertigo@yahoo.com
Fri, 24 May 2002 10:33:49 -0700 (PDT)


--- "Tran, Mike" <mtran@shufflemaster.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Besides LocalFS, does Zope have any other products
> or methods to serves-up
> linux local file system.  What i want to do is to
> allow our
> users(developers) to upload/download their contents
> to the
> webser without having to import huge files into
> ZODB.  
> These files could reach up to Gigabytes per user.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestion on how i should
> handle this?

take a look at ExtFile, LocalFS provides what amounts
to an window/bridge to the file system. ExtFile
provides a Proxy Object to a single file, whose
contents are stored on the fs. the advantage of ext
file, is that additional metadata can be attached to
the Proxy which can be indexed and queried by other
zope objects. in either case i would recommend having
the actual file contents served up by a different
server, such as apache.

cheers

-k


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