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    There are people who have experience with giant ZODBs... some people have run into the 2GB ext2fs file size limit. My Data.fs has been around ~100MB. FileSystem Storage is very stable, and is not likely to get
corrupted no matter what the size. If you need to store the docs in multiple
drives, you can use the "Mountable Storages":http://www.zope.org//Members/jim/ZODB/MountedDatabases to set up another file on the
other disk.     (this was taken from Kevin Dangoors posting to Zope mlist)

     mindlace said python has a large file support turned off so it is a python limitation OUT OF THE BOX its an option you must turn on when you compile python interperter?  so this means people should be aware *please correct if wrong* if you plan on going above 2GB you should flip a switch on the python interpreter.  what are the drawbacks to this?  why isnt this default?

     There is a very simple way to figure out if your version of python supports large files try this script::

         fd = open('/tmp/test','rw')
         fd.tell()    # if 0 is returned No large file support else if 0L than Yes large file support is enabled