----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan" <dev101@magma.ca> To: "Dieter Maurer" <dieter@handshake.de> Cc: <zope@zope.org>; <zodb-dev@zope.org> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 2:05 PM Subject: Re: [Problem report] "pack" discards reachable object (was: [Zope]Pack problem with zeo)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dieter Maurer" <dieter@handshake.de> To: "Jonathan" <dev101@magma.ca> Cc: <zope@zope.org>; <zodb-dev@zope.org> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [Problem report] "pack" discards reachable object (was: [Zope] Pack problem with zeo)
Jonathan wrote at 2006-8-21 13:38 -0400:
... I can reproduce the behaviour very easily... after I pack and the 'ZeoServer1' folder disappears i do the following:
- stop zope - delete Data.fs - rename Data.fs.old to Data.fs - start zope
And the ZeoServer1 folder is back. I then pack zope and the ZeoServer1 folder disappears again. I can do this again and again and again.
If your "Data.fs.old" is not too large (not larger than 1 MB) and on the path to the "ZeoServer1" are only standard Zope objects, you could send it to me for investigation ([bg]zip it, to make it smaller).
Thanks for the very kind offer but the Data.fs file is 53Mb before packing and 7.8Mb after packing. I tried tar/gzip but the 53Mb only dropped down to 8.9Mb.
I have found a work-around: - delete the ZeoServer1 folder (via the ZMI) - pack the main Data.fs and specify only to pack items older than 1 day - after the pack (Data.fs down to 7.8Mb from 53Mb) undo the ZeoServer1 folder deletion Everything seems to be ok, but a bit of an ugly work-around. Jonathan