[PATCH] Maintain a metadata copy outside the index (was Re: Datastore & backup - request for help)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'll diagnose a bit more and post back.
>
> I'm baffled. I initially suspected PEBKAC but it keeps happening. With
> the patch the DS gets renamed, and journal never starts. If the
> datastore code gets to complain somewhere I haven't been able to find
> it.
>
> If I back the patch out, and rename the datastore back to "datastore",
> I get a new, empty datastore on reboot. (Data files are there,
> though).
>
> Nothing in the patch looks suspicious so I am a bit lost. Might still
> be a problem with something silly. I am testing this on a 703 image
> where I moved /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/olpc/datastore aside,
> and replaced it with a symlink to my git checkout. The git checkout
> was identical to the files from the 703 image, and I applied your
> patch.
>
> I've now merged in your latest commit, but it's just a version
> identifier change, so bah.

Ouch, sorry, I should have been more explicit in that this patch
introduces a dependency on cjson. I'm going to send next another patch
that falls back to simplejson (slower) if cjson is not available.

Regards,

Tomeu