[Problem report] "pack" discards reachable object (was: [Zope] Pack problem with zeo)

[Jonathan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dieter Maurer" <dieter at handshake.de>
To: "Jonathan" <dev101 at magma.ca>
Cc: <zope at zope.org>; <zodb-dev at zope.org>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Problem report] "pack" discards reachable object (was: [Zope] 
Pack problem with zeo)


> Jonathan wrote at 2006-8-21 13:38 -0400:
>> ...
>>I can reproduce the behaviour very easily... after I pack and the
>>'ZeoServer1' folder disappears i do the following:
>>
>>- stop zope
>>- delete Data.fs
>>- rename Data.fs.old to Data.fs
>>- start zope
>>
>>And the ZeoServer1 folder is back.  I then pack zope and the ZeoServer1
>>folder disappears again.  I can do this again and again and again.
>
> If your "Data.fs.old" is not too large (not larger than 1 MB)
> and on the path to the "ZeoServer1" are only standard Zope objects, you
> could send it to me for investigation ([bg]zip it, to make it smaller).

Thanks for the very kind offer but the Data.fs file is 53Mb before packing 
and 7.8Mb after packing. I tried tar/gzip but the 53Mb only dropped down to 
8.9Mb.

Thanks again for the offer.

Jonathan