RE: directory storage is not responding

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 17:28, Toby Dickenson wrote:
> > I tried removing (--purge zope*) and reinstall from debian unstable
> > (zope 2.6.4): default instance with Data.fs works.  I duplicate the
> > instance, install dirstorage (1.1.9 this time), create a dirstorage
> > from the previously working Data.fs, start the instance: it hangs
> > and looks at invisible butterflies, again.
> 
> You have a small Data.fs that works, and it makes zope hang when
> converted to a DirectoryStorage? 

exactly.

> If you can email me a copy of the Data.fs and tarball of the storage
> to [email protected], I will see if I can reproduce.

I am not sure that it is the fault of the data, but I will try to send
you the tarball.

> Have you any clue about where it is hanging?

According to strace, it hangs after the first fork().  I can send you
the strace output if you want.

> Im not aware of any code to do that, but it wouldnt be hard. The
> Full.py history method has all the logic needed for traversing the
> storage, and FileStorage has a 'restore' method which can be used to
> insert the data. The only tricky part is that DirectoryStorage history
> is linked starting with recent history but FileStorage.restore wants
> old history first, so you need to reverse the transaction order.

I'll keep this info here for now, I hoped there was something already
done :)

regards
stef


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