Commit 0709760d authored by Chris McDonough's avatar Chris McDonough

Changed wording.

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Overview
Temporary Folders are Folders which are created out of memory, in such
the same way as a RAM disk, for example, which have their contents
lost upon shutdown.
By default, Zope will create a temporary folder named "temp_folder" in
the root of the Zope installation.
Temporary Folders are Folders which store their contents
"in-memory", in much the same way as a RAM disk. The contents
of a Temporary Folder are lost upon shutdown.
Creating
Creating a Temporary Folder is fairly straightforward; one creates them
as you would a regular Folder; through the Zope management interface:
By default, Zope will create a Temporary Folder named "temp_folder" in
the root of every Zope installation. This Temporary Folder will
be used by the Zope Sessions machinery, but it may be used for
other purposes as well.
You may create additional Temporary Folders. Creating a Temporary
Folder is fairly straightfoward; they are created in the same way
as a "regular" Folder through the Zope management interface:
- Specify an id (a name) for the folder
- Specify an optional title for the folder
Once created and mounted, Temporary Folders are regular Folder objects.
Mounting of the Temporary Folder happens automatically the first time
it is accessed.
Usage
Once created, a Temporary Folder acts just like regular Folder
object with the exception that the items which it contains will be
lost upon Zope shutdown and restart.
Since Temporary Folders use RAM to store data, it is advised to
add items to a Temporary Folder sparingly. The capacity of a
Temporary Folder is limited by available RAM.
Interaction with ZEO
Temporary Folders exist local to the Zope server; thus, each server in
a ZEO cluster would have their own private copy of data in a Temporary
Folder. Only temporary data that should be local to a specific Zope
instance should go in the Temporary Folder. Items which need to be
shared between Zope servers should not be placed in Temporary Folders.
Temporary Folders exist local to the Zope server. Thus, each
server in a ZEO cluster would have their own private copy of data
in a Temporary Folder. Only temporary data that should be local
to a specific Zope instance should go into a Temporary Folder.
Items which need to be shared between Zope servers in a ZEO
cluster should not be placed in Temporary Folders.
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