[ZODB-Dev] BDBMinimal with Zope 2.7b3

[Toby Dickenson]

On Monday 05 January 2004 19:37, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 14:17, Matt Hubbard wrote:

> I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "will not create a copy of current
> objects when it is packed".  I'm guessing you're complaining about the
> temp file that FileStorage creates and then rotates to during its pack
> phase.  If this is your chief concern, then BDBFull ought to alleviate
> them.  It does all its packing "in-situ", meaning within the same
> BerkeleyDB tables that it uses for its live operation.  It doesn't need
> to make copies of anything.

DirectoryStorage packs without extra disk space too. In addition, both 
DirectoryStorage and BDBFull do not need extra memory during packing. afaik, 
FileStorage is the only storage with those costs.

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Toby Dickenson