On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 6:18 AM, grahamperrin <g.j.per...@bton.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > Michael Havard wrote: > > > > We're missing 16 days worth of content. > > > > Python 2.3.5, Zope 2.8.4, Plone 2.1.2, and a host of other products. ZEO > > configuration. Persistent disk caching is on. > > > > Yesterday everything was fine. All the content was there and accessible. > > > > I recall reading about a case that involved quietly running out of free > space on the volume used for FileStorage. Something like … the most recent > content was in RAM — and the running ZEO cluster seemed to work fine with > that (no adverse effect on the end user, at the time) — but that content > was > not committed to disk (and so, was probably unrecoverable following a > restart of the OS). > If you remove an open file storage (on a Unix-like system), the file still exists, but it is no longer accessible from the original directory. New transactions are committed to this still existing file, not ram. Jim -- Jim Fulton
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