Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!valley From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Strange zoo problem Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 20:59:37 GMT References: <27DAF021.3ABD@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> <695@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 20 derek@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl (derek) writes: >fireman@sunc5.cs.uiuc.edu (Neil Feiereisel) writes: >>Without changing anything, I suddenly got the following error message when >>doing my backups using zoo. >>ERROR: Could not open .... >>and I get this error for every file in the archive. >I *think* there is a bug in zoo. I had a problem with zoo archives over >about 700/800 K. I forget what the error message was, but it certainly >was a strange one. There are three things that you can do: Zoo (version 2.00) also has a problem with archives which have too many entries in them (I think this applies to # of entries at a given directory level, but have not tested it thoroughly) In any case, we had to redesign a system that uses zoo for archival purpose to never put more than about 240 files into a given .ZOO