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Upgrade to db 4.1 WAS: RE: need advice building svn 0.14.3 under OS X

From: Sander Striker <striker_at_apache.org>
Date: 2002-10-14 11:45:33 CEST

> From: Nicholas Riley [mailto:njriley@uiuc.edu]
> Sent: 14 October 2002 11:25

> On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 08:29:09PM -0400, Kevin D. Bond wrote:
> > Please note that there is a bug with MUTEXs in Berkeley DB 4.0 under
> > Mac OS X. In fact I had problems with everything from 3.3 to 4.0. 4.1
> > includes a fix, you can get the mutex change from 4.1 and include it in
> > 4.0. If unfixed, this bug will cause database corruption during
> > concurrent writes to the database.
>
> This explains why I can't run a Subversion server on OS X for more
> than about 5 commits before the database explodes. I've spent days
> trying to track down this problem already, but didn't get anywhere
> (probably because I was looking inside Subversion instead of BDB for
> the problem).
>
> Do you have a patch for 4.0.14 to fix the mutex problems? If so I can
> test it out... I've got plenty of test cases - for example, all I need
> to do is create a new repository, import a dumpfile, and I get errors
> with the version I'm using.

If this is the case then I think it is a very valid reason for us to consider
making db 4.1 the required version. Justin already submitted a patch.

Any reasons why we shouldn't move to 4.1 and stick with 4.0?

Sander

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