[ZODB-Dev] zodb monitor port / tailing a .fs

[Christian Theune]

On 10/14/2010 09:58 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
> On 14/10/2010 02:40, Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting wrote:
>>> ...and fsdump appears to have no way of saying "show me the last few
>>> transactions in this 35GB file" :-(
>>
>> Yeah it's pretty verbose. I usually just pump the output to a text file
>
> ...yeah, but a 35GB zodb is going to result in, what, a 120? 200? GB
> text file. I don't think I actually have that much disk space lying
> around on these servers, let alone how long fsdump would take to produce
> it ;-)
>
> I wonder how hard it'd be to add some kind of start-at-the-end feature
> to fstail?

With the new iterators that start scanning from the back that shouldn't 
be too hard.

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