RE: Windows 'Access Denied' Update

Thanks, I would be very interested in hearing how they managed a
reliable workaround.

DJ

-----Original Message-----
From: John Peacock [mailto:jpeacock@rowman.com]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:38 PM
To: D.J. Heap
Cc: Subversion Dev
Subject: Re: Windows 'Access Denied' Update

D.J. Heap wrote:
> On a fresh XP machine with Index Server off and no AV stuff installed,

> I've been multi-stress.pl-ing and get the 'Access denied' problem on
> FAT32 as well as NTFS. *And* if I patch svn_io_file_rename to attempt

> 100 retries, it seems to fix the rename, but then I occasionally see
> svn_io_file_remove failures with 'Access Denied.'
>

<snip>

>
> Anyway, it's not just NTFS and it's not just renames. Yay, fun.

I believe the same problem was mentioned on the CVSNT list a while back,
and the
lead developer's belief was that the NT filesystem architecture was
introducing
lags, i.e. renaming/deleting the file was not strictly atomic with the
filesystem actually updated to reflect the delete. I don't remember if
this was
just NTFS or also on FAT32.

I'll ask on that list for what he remembers (and what he did to work
around it).

John

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