[ZODB-Dev] FileStorage database unrecoverable?

[Shane Hathaway]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Christian Reis wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:00:23AM -0500, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> > > One of the neat uses was to have the Data.fs partitioned into CD-sized 
> > > chunks for backup.
> > 
> > Yes.  But most people I've talked to about it don't think it's worth the 
> > effort, saying that large files are now supported everywhere that 
> > matters, so I've been maintaining it privately.
> 
> Am I wrong in thinking that another reason is that DirectoryStorage and
> BerkeleyStorage already break the database up in separate files too,
> which alleviates this problem to an extent?

That's right.  PartitionedFileStorage doesn't do anything that the more 
interesting storages can't do.  At the time I created the hack, the 
alternatives were not yet mature, but now they are.

Shane