On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:19:19 -0400 "Jeremy Hylton" <jeremy@zope.com> wrote:
It wouldn't surprise me if this is a completely unrelated problem. Any chance that the python your using to test doesn't have large file support? Check by importing test.test_largefile.
Yeah, you're right, I don't have largefile support. But I normally don't need it because it's just a ZEO client. And I've been trying to get python to compile with largefile support and I can't. I'm using Debian woody (and no, I don't want to use the installed python2.1 package). Can someone tell me exactly how to compile python 2.1.3 with LFS support?
We recently discovered that there's a bad interaction between ZODB and Python without large file support running on a platform that supports large files. In this specific configuration, os.path.exists() returns false for files >2 GB and ZODB creates a new Data.fs.
Yeah, that's a bad thing. I'm glad this wasn't my only copy (although it takes 15 minutes to get a new copy since it's so large.) --andy.