[ZODB-Dev] What's best to do when there is a failure in the second phase of 2-phase commit on a storage server

[Christian Theune]

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 09:55 +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote at 2008-10-1 13:40 -0400:
> > ...
> >> It may well be that a restart *may* not lead into a fully functional
> >> state (though this would indicate a storage bug)
> >
> >A failure in tpc_finish already indicates a storage bug.
> 
> Maybe -- although "file system is full" might not be so easy to avoid
> in all cases....

That should be easy to avoid by allocating the space you need in the
first phase and either release it on an abort or write your 'committed'
marker into it in the second phase.

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