[Zope] Data.fs.lock?

Erik Enge erik@src.no
Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:09:08 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Chris Withers wrote:

> I'd say it's definitely a problem if you have to stop zope to do a
> backup :(

How would you do it?  In Unix you can't check if the file is being
read to (can you?), so if you start backing up a 2GB Data.fs file
and then the Zope process starts writing to it, you'll have garbage :-).

Does ZEO solve this?