"Sander Striker" <striker@apache.org> writes:
> > My recollection is that Sander Striker was having discussions with
> > sleepycat folk, and that some deep issue was revealed. In almost all
> > of these cases, a berkeley db table had switched 'type' for some
> > reason; the sleepycat people revealed that this might happen if
> > recovery is happening whilst something else changes the db. (Is this
> > accurate, Sander?)
>
> Let me dig up the mail. Note that a big chunk of communication was
> done by cmpilato BTW.
>
> What it basically comes down to is that a recover will recreate the
> environment. Which means that if you modify the db while recovering
> you get an inconsistent environment (wrong allocation counts etc).
That's correct. It is positively critical that you never run
'svnadmin recover' on a repository that is in use by any processes.
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Received on Sun Aug 3 07:49:50 2003