[Zope] The Goblins of Zope

[Paul T (spk)]

Have many stories about The Goblins.

For example, Permissions, not working 
in *particular* folder.

I run  http://www.xmlsuck.com/
on Squishdot for 1+ year.

One day, all of a sudden,  'Search' stopped 
working.

Manage->ControlPanel->pack

has fixed it. 

In fact, it was not *that*  simple, because after 
'fixing' it that way, Zope has crushed several 
times next 48 hours, but I was stubborn and 
now, couple weeks later, everything works 
fine.

I belive that :

-  everything in Zope depends on ZODB 
-  ZODB is not rock solid 

So - any day you may start experiencing 
some funny effects. Not frequently.
I would say - once two months, maybe.

"ZODB is not rock solid" needs more comment.
ZODB has pretty nice self-recovering abilities.

In fact, I was *very* happy (and was not expecting) 
that  the 'pack' thing would be able to 'fix' ZODB -
from the shape it was.

Basically, ZCatalog and everything depending on 
it was not working (not only xmlsuck part), so I 
was expecting the damage to be major. 
I'm making backups,  but still ... 

Something like  "Norton Disk Doctor"  
for Zope may make sense eventually, when/if  
Zope would gain more marketshare.

Perhaps there is some utility out there 
which is devoted to capturing / fixing 
inconsistensies  in ZODB 'at all costs' ? 
Some improved version of 
Manage->ControlPanel->pack ?

I tried looking, but found nothing 
comparable to  "Norton Disk Doctor".

Rgds.Paul.