FileStorage is the most widely used ZODB storage. It's a relatively simple design, and is generally the fastest storage implementation.
All data is saved in a single .fs file. A bit simplified, a .fs file is a sequence of transaction records. Each transaction record has a transaction header, followed by a sequence of data records. There's one data record for each object modified by the transaction. Each data record has a data header, followed by a serialized form ("pickle") of the object's new state. A FileStorage grows only by appending, so transactions appear in order, from oldest to newest. ...
- more on that in ZODBWiki?: article by tim_one
- http://zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/FileStorageBackup
FileStorageTools - a quick summary of scripts that come bundled with Zope as discussed in FileStorageBackup?.
- StorageProducts
- some other storage options
Related error msg:: --FlorianKonnertz, Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:21:53 -0700 reply
Related error msg:
2004-08-02T22:19:18 DEBUG(-200) FileStorage create storage /var/lib/zope/zope-2.7.0/var/Data.fs