Re: MacOS X problems---Corrupt repository

(Moved from users to dev)

At 7:56 PM -0400 8/3/03, Garrett Rooney wrote:
>It's not a simple problem, because svnadmin recover needs to be able
>to handle the case where the client has crashed while holding the
>lock, so at least some of the time it needs to forcefully break the
>lock. This is a bad thing (tm) if the other process actually is
>still running. The current code doesn't handle this especially well
>(it just breaks the lock all the time, rather than trying to acquire
>it normally), so we should definately be doing something else, the
>question is what?

The danger of corrupting a repo during "recovery" is a really huge
gotcha! Do we have an issue open to cover this? I can't spot one.

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