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Re: NFS problems

From: Daniel Berlin <dan_at_dberlin.org>
Date: 2002-02-15 15:08:36 CET

On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 09:04 AM, Daniel Berlin wrote:

>
> On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 08:54 AM, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
>> Jan Borsodi <jb@ez.no> writes:
>>
>>> I'm having some problems running Subversion over NFS (with NIS), I get
>>>
>>> svn_error: #21086 : <URL is not a versioned resource>
>>> svn_ra_local__split_URL: Unable to find valid repository
>>
>>
>> I believe that BerkelyDB uses mmap() to do locking, so you can't open
>> a repository over NFS.
>
> You can force it not to use mmap with some flag to db->open.
> If this is indeed the problem, maybe we should try it first without the
> flag, then fall back to using it with it?

Forget that, even that won't help.
http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/env/remote.html
(read the part about fsync on nfs)

Someone should throw a pointer to this in a FAQ or something.
--Dan

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