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Re: can libsvn_fs handle parallel writes to the same txn?

From: Peter N. Lundblad <peter_at_famlundblad.se>
Date: 2006-05-22 18:20:35 CEST

Malcolm Rowe writes:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:24:08AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > over DAV opens up the possibility that multiple httpd processes might
> > be attempting to write to the same fs transaction at the same time.
> >
>
> >From what I can remember, it certainly looked to me like the FSFS code
> requires that a transaction is only updated by a single thread.
>
> For example, when we receive a text-delta for a file, we just stream the
> resulting delta to the end of the proto-rev-file (of which there is only
> one per transaction), and that certainly won't work if two callers call
> svn_fs_apply_textdelta() simultaneously on the same transaction root.
>
Yeah, and the same is true for the changes file, for example. I don't
think concurrency is supported at all for a single transaction in
FSFS.

Regards,
//Peter

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