Duncan Booth wrote: > Tres Seaver wrote: > >> Mark Gibson wrote: >>> I know zope makes a copy of Data.fs before packing. Is it possible to >>> specify a location other than <zope>/var to place that copy? >> Actually, it makes a *new* file when packing, and then unlinks the old >> file and re-links the copy under its name after finishing the pack >> successfully. If you are looking to "spread the love" across multiple >> partitions, you can symlink the original file into a directory on >> another drive / partition, and then do the pack there. One the pack >> completes, you can move or copy the packed version back to the original >> directory. >> > I recently had to move a fairly large Data.fs onto a different partition, > but just copying it would have involved downtime (at least for > authoring) that I wanted to avoid. > > The solution I came up with was to create a var folder on the new partition > symlinking back to Data.fs in the original location. Then I switched ZEO to > using the var on the new partition and packed the database. After packing > the database was on the new partition with no downtime apart from a single > ZEO restart.
Nice. I should note that DirectoryStorage (http://dirstorage.sf.net) has excellent replication support which make things like moving live Zope instances from one partition to another one w/o lots of downtime almost trivial. Philipp _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
