[Zope] Lost Objects after System Crash (Zope 2.1.5 on Win32)

[Joachim Werner]

Martijn, you're right. Nobody would use Win98 on production systems. But quite a
few people use it on their notebooks or home PCs for development, I guess. At
least that is what I do.

If your assumption that a Windows cache problem is the reason for the data
loss, is right, that would mean that Win98 must be holding the whole DATA.FS in
memory/virtual memory without saving for hours!

In that case it might be a good idea to warn everybody to shutdown and restart
Zope under Windows 9x after major changes.

BTW: So far, I've never lost data when I just "killed" the Zope process. So
Windows seems to save data at least in that case ...

Joachim.


> This sounds like Win98 is using a write-cache that didn't get flushed to disk
> because of the crah. IIRC, Zope forces write cache flushes, but it could well
> be that Win98, being a client-patform, ignores that for performance reasons.
> 
> Then again, who'd use Win98 for production sites?