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Subject: Re: corrupted database file
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 15:17:14 -0700
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What does "tail-append" headers mean?

Is there anything that can be done in the current version to avoid  
this? (aside from ensuring there is always disk space)

Thanks,
Peter

On May 12, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Damien Katz wrote:

> It looks like the database file got truncated. Until we get tail-
> append headers, there is no way to recover the file contents when this
> happens.
>
> -Damien
>
>
> On May 12, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Peter Hsu wrote:
>
>> I get the following error when visiting futon:
>>
>> Database information could not be retrieved:
>> {{{badmatch,eof},
>> [{couch_file,handle_call,3},
>>   {gen_server,handle_msg,5},
>>   {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]},
>> {gen_server,call,[<0.82.0>,
>> {pread_bin,86816267188},infinity]}}
>>
>> This is in couch 0.9.0.
>>
>> The file system had run out of disk space previously.  There is
>> sufficient disk space now, but the database file seems to be
>> corrupted.  Is there any utility to try to repair the database?
>>