Re: [Zope] Data.fs.lock?

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Chris Withers wrote:

Would this whole problem go away if Zope had a 'backup data.fs' funcion internally that could keep all transactions in memory while the appopriate files were copied?

It would, but keeping it in memory would be a bad thing. Say your data.fs file was 10GB large, and it took 4 hours to back it up, and you only had X amount of RAM - then it would begin swapping after some time. Now that would be ugly :-). One could possibly have a function that put new transactions in a new file, and then - when told it was ok to do so - it could update the regular data.fs file. Actually, if I'm not mistaken, this could be something to put in ZEO?