BDB recovery, WAS: RE: MacOS X problems---Corrupt repository

> From: Jack Repenning [mailto:jrepenning@collab.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 8:48 PM

> At 8:39 PM +0200 8/4/03, Sander Striker wrote:
>>
>> What we really need is a mandatory --force flag to svnadmin recover
>> and a "WARNING: ... Are you sure [yes/no]?" when --force isn't passed.
>
> Are you really saying there's nothing better that can be done? BDB
> doesn't record the PID of the locking processes, for example?

The philosophy behind recover is that all processes have died that
were accessing the db, and assuming that the locks that are there are
stale.

This is why Sleepycat recommends using a single program to access
the db and to proxy everything through that. We do have an issue on
this IIRC.

Sander

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Received on Mon Aug 4 20:57:58 2003