Q: I saw Jim's mail on fsrecover.py. Does this work on Zope 2.1.6 databases too?
I'll try tomorrow, with a backup copy. But personal experience would be nice :-)
Every time Ive had a data.fs problem running fsrecover or simply restarting (does the same thing has worked). There is also the tranalyser (have a look on Zope.org).
Q: The number of transactions (write/update) are quite high on my site - atleast now, during the building phase. What would be a recommended pack frequency?
Note: 95% of our updates are through anonymous user. This is because I'm (need to, asked to) using zope as purely an app server, not as a web platform. So, all my data goes into an Oracle database, then gets created on ZODB as a DTML document etc. It is really a round about way of doing things - like trying to write some ASP/PHP code to make things look 10% like Zope's content management abilities.
Just out of curiosity if its in Oracle why put it in Zope as well. Cant you pull it from Oracle at run time?
Q: Is there any particular reason why I really should upgrade to Zope 2.2?
Better security, some bug fixes.