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

[Benji York]

Juan Pablo Giménez wrote:
> El lun, 02-10-2006 a las 14:00 -0400, Benji York escribió:
>> >> "Data.fs.tmp" usually only contains the last transaction (although,
>> >> it may not free unused space at the end).
>> > 
>> > but... that's a bug... why zope keep writing in .tmp file if we can't 
>> > recover nothing from there?!?!...
>>
>> Why is it a bug?  A .tmp file is just that, temporary.  It's not a backup.
> 
> ok... but, if you delete Data.fs zope keep running, writing data into 
> Data.fs.tmp, and don't log nothing about it. Sorry, but that's a bug...

That's the way Unix-like file systems work.  Perhaps you should switch 
to Windows, it doesn't (easily) allow you to delete in-use files.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation