[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:     Donnerstag, 5. August 2004 16:49:22
>> An:     Harald Koschinski
>> Cc:     Christian Robottom Reis; 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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> Harald Koschinski wrote:
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>> 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 
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>>> needed don't work.  Without the ability to manage log files, I don't
>>> see it being very practically usable.
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>> I use db_archive without any problems - small script running from 
>> cron moves the logfiles - where is the problem?
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> Hm, it didn't work for me when I tested this months ago.  Does it
> actually remove log files for you?

Yes - db_archive (executed inside the data- or logfile directory is 
listing all no more active logfiles.
Somthing like
server1:/logfiles # db_archive |xargs rm
will delete the files.

works great ;-)

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> Jim
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