[ZODB-Dev] POSKeyError plea for help

[Toby Dickenson]

On Monday 13 January 2003 1:24 pm, Chris Withers wrote:

> > 3. There are some known corner cases to the packing algorithm used by=
 all
> > storages which can cause permanent storage corruption. It is generall=
y
> > agreed that they should be hit very rarely, possibly only when the ho=
le
> > is exposed by an application bug.
>
> Interesting. The storages where I'm pretty sure the exceptions come fro=
m
> are packed on an hourly basis. Is this bug documented anywhere?

Scattered in the zodb-dev archives.

> PS: What file systems would you recommend DirectoryStorage on?

reiserfs on linux.

> How much
> difference does the storage used make?

eh?

> What happens if I try and use
> DirectoryStorage on Windows?

You will get a healthy NotImplementedError. It should be possible to crea=
te an=20
excellent NTFS version, but I know I will never have time for this.

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Toby Dickenson
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