On Thursday 24 January 2008, Thomas Lotze wrote: > Jim Fulton wrote: > > IMO, something that packed incrementally, with disk being freed along the > > way, would be a big improvement. This isn't possible with FileStorage. > > Just an idea, without having followed FileStorage's history: Has spreading > the file storage across multiple files been considered? Suppose > FileStorage didn't put everything into one big file which has to be > rewritten from scratch during packing. Since transactions are simply > appended to that big file it should be possible to store each transaction > in its own small file. Incremental packing might then be possible by > conflating the oldest n files into one, for some sufficiently small n.
Yes, it is called DirectoryStorage. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter Web Software Design, Development and Training Google me. "Zope Stephan Richter" _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
