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Re: Repository corruption: "Could not get next bucket brigade"

From: John Szakmeister <john_at_szakmeister.net>
Date: 2006-12-24 00:31:53 CET

----- John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net> wrote:
> ----- Samuel Langlois <slanglois@ilog.fr> wrote:
> [snip]
> > We are using svn 1.3.2 on Linux, exclusively through the http://
> > protocol
> > (Apache/2.2.2 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.2 OpenSSL/0.9.7a DAV/2 SVN/1.3.2)
> > The repository format is fsfs.
> > The whole repository is rather big (several GB, 66,000 revisions);
> > it is coming from a CVS import through cvs2svn.
> > It is the first time we encounter such a problem in six months of
> > work.
> >
> > Is there anything that I can look at to help diagnose the problem
> > further?
> > Is this a known issue?
> > How can I be sure that this does not happen again?
> > Thanks for your help
>
> It is a known issue, and I believe it has been fixed in the latest
> version (1.4.2).

FWIW, the issue that was fixed isn't related to bucket brigades. There was another issue where a handle to the revision would remain open, and would get closed when the pool was destroyed. The last block of data would be written out and corrupt the revision.

>
> As for fixing the problem, have a look at fsfsverify. A number of
> people have been able to successfully recover their repositories with
> it.

I meant to provide the link:
  http://www.szakmeister.net/fsfsverify/

-John

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