On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:52:30PM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: > 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.
It is also possible to resurrect the deleted file as long as the process
keeping it open doesn't quit:
1. find the pid and fd with lsof
2. cat /proc/$pid/fd/$fd > /new/path
(sadly, ln doesn't seem to work -- "Invalid cross-device link" -- so you
need twice as much disk space)
Marius Gedminas
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