[ZODB-Dev] FileStorage database unrecoverable?

[Steve Alexander]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> 
> Yikes, it looks like the file is actually 2^31 bytes or larger, making 
> it so that even file.tell() fails.  In the short term, if you trim the 
> file to 2147483647 bytes (2^31 - 1), you'll probably be able to open it 
> or use fsrecover. 

Shane,

Didn't you once write a patch to FileStorage that split the Data.fs into 
a number of portions, and thus allowed large FileStorages to be used on 
systems that don't support large files?

I remember at the time I thought that was a great idea.

One of the neat uses was to have the Data.fs partitioned into CD-sized 
chunks for backup.

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Steve Alexander