Fwd: [Zope] zope on google file system

[Andrew Milton]

+-------[ 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