[ZODB-Dev] BerkeleyStorage is gone - what now???

[Harald Koschinski]

Jim Fulton schrieb:

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>> Von:     Jim Fulton[SMTP:JIM at ZOPE.COM]
>> Gesendet:     Mittwoch, 4. August 2004 16:19:38
>> An:     Christian Robottom Reis
>> Cc:     Harald Koschinski; zodb-dev at zope.org
>> Betreff:     Re: [ZODB-Dev] BerkeleyStorage is gone - what now???
>> Diese Nachricht wurde automatisch von einer Regel weitergeleitet.
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> Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:41:10AM +0200, Harald Koschinski wrote:
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>>>   I can not understand the reasons for stopping BDB-Support at
>>>   http://zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/BerkeleyStorageDocs/BDBStorage.html
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>> AFAIK the main reason it was dropped was that no one was available to
>> actually invest time in BDBStorage maintenance. IIRC nobody cried out
>> when it was scheduled for droppage.
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> I have no problem with distributing it separately.  It needs
> a champion and maintainer.
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> It has what I consider to be a fatal flaw.  Because it doesn't
> use BDB locks, the BDB tools for figuring out what log files are no 
> longer
> needed don't work.  Without the ability to manage log files, I don't
> see it being very practically usable.

I use db_archive without any problems - small script running from cron 
moves the logfiles - where is the problem?

Harald

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> Jim
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