[ZODB-Dev] HOWTO recover from Data.fs.tmp

Jens Vagelpohl jens at dataflake.org
Mon Oct 2 15:31:56 EDT 2006


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On 2 Oct 2006, at 14:07, Russ Ferriday wrote:

> But for an app to be writing into thin air without complaining -  
> THAT's a bug!
> Even having a backup of the Data.fs would not help!
> Not picking on zope, but if that's what's happening it has to be  
> called a bug.

Wrong. It is not writing into thin air. It probably still holds a  
file descriptor. The fact that the file the descriptor is pointing to  
is not visible because someone messed with it cannot be detected by  
the ZODB code. There is no bug here.

jens


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