[Zope] ZoDB and BIG FILES

[Sebastien Pastor]

Thanx Peter, i ll have a look @ ExtFile

Cheers

Seb

Peter Sabaini wrote:

> Paul Winkler wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 12:01:09AM +0100, Sebastien Pastor wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>>
>>> I am about to finalize a Zope 2 site. It will mainly play the role 
>>> of groupware app and storage server.
>>> My question is : i know i ll get quicly a big amount of PSD files 
>>> (photoshop) they are usually quite heavy. Do you rekon i should 
>>> store them on my server file system rather than the ZODB ? Do you 
>>> see any trouble putting them all into the DB in a longer term  ? (i 
>>> know my python is large-file compiled). 
>>
>
> [snip]
>
>>> Storing on both FS and ZODB is it an easy thing to do ?
>>
>>
>>
>> If you want the files on the filesystem, there are various solutions
>> depending on your needs: LocalFS, FilesystemDirectoryView, and APE. I 
>> have not evaluated these for performance with large files, except
>> LocalFS which I know is at least as slow as normal zope File objects.
>> I tend to assume they are all slow.
>
>
> ExtFile should be quite a bit faster than LocalFS (it streams directly 
> from the FS in most cases instead of first loading everything into 
> Zope like LocalFS).
>
> Be sure to get the rewritten version Stefan Holek did:
>
> http://zope.org/Members/shh/ExtFile
>
>
>
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