[ZODB-Dev] filestorage open latency

[Greg Ward]

On 11 December 2002, Toby Dickenson said:
> On Wednesday 11 December 2002 8:43 pm, David McCusker wrote:
> > The recent commentary on profiling open time for filestorage databases
> > suggests opening a zodb database has significant latency on the order
> > of a couple or more dozens of seconds.
> >
> > Is that inherent in the filestorage architecture?
> 
> Filestorage startup time is proportional to size, and (should be) 
> proportionally longer if the storage is not closed cleanly. 

Except that it's not -- it turns out that, in certain cases, scanning
the database to make sure the index is sane takes just as long as
generating the index from scratch.  Hmmmm.  Makes ya wonder...

        Greg
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