From dbc465a51871bd685dd925c23bf73b981e07abe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jsa <jsa@edx.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 03:30:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] reuse instances of OSFS in old mongo

---
 common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/mongo/base.py | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/mongo/base.py b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/mongo/base.py
index 9c791f472d..eaf808d18d 100644
--- a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/mongo/base.py
+++ b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/mongo/base.py
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ BLOCK_TYPES_WITH_CHILDREN = list(set(
 # Allow us to call _from_deprecated_(son|string) throughout the file
 # pylint: disable=protected-access
 
+# at module level, cache one instance of OSFS per filesystem root.
+_OSFS_INSTANCE = {}
+
 
 class MongoRevisionKey(object):
     """
@@ -836,10 +839,7 @@ class MongoModuleStore(ModuleStoreDraftAndPublished, ModuleStoreWriteBase, Mongo
         location = Location._from_deprecated_son(item['location'], course_key.run)
         data_dir = getattr(item, 'data_dir', location.course)
         root = self.fs_root / data_dir
-
-        root.makedirs_p()  # create directory if it doesn't exist
-
-        resource_fs = OSFS(root)
+        resource_fs = _OSFS_INSTANCE.setdefault(root, OSFS(root, create=True))
 
         cached_metadata = {}
         if apply_cached_metadata: