[Pdx-pm] Subversion question

Bryce Harrington bryce at osdl.org
Tue Dec 13 13:41:55 PST 2005


On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:36:24PM -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from Wil Cooley
> # on Tuesday 13 December 2005 01:31 pm:
> 
> >FSFS and not BDB, NFS is fine for
> >serving the repository or working copy. ?I would expect the same would
> >apply for SMBFS/CIFS
> 
> Nice.  I guess I should have figured that, given that the BDB problems 
> stem from lockfiles and the flakiness of those over NFS.  I haven't 
> tried any FSFS repos yet.  They implemented it with a different locking 
> system or just without needing locks?

Cool, hey, could you describe how to recreate this problem?  I'm
involved with the testing of NFSv4 and if this is a fault with the
locking, I'd like to add it to my test process so we can make sure SVN
will work properly with NFSv4.  This sounds like it would make an
interesting test case.

Bryce


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