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Re: Add warning to svnadmin recover, WAS: FW: repository too slow suddenly

From: Jani Averbach <jaa_at_cc.jyu.fi>
Date: 2003-08-14 20:59:31 CEST

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Sander Striker wrote:

> I guess it is about time.
+1

> Anyone care to take this bite-sized task?

I would like to take this one. However, I don't have a dev-machine at hand
about for a week, so this will take some time, but if this is fine, then I
will take care about that.

BR, Jani

>
> Sander
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor) [mailto:wadswore@fhu.disa.mil]
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:55 PM
> To: 'Sander Striker'
> Subject: RE: repository too slow suddenly
>
>
> So that's why it was so slow when I accessed the repository from my browser
> while recover was running. It was busy corrupting my repository.
>
> *slaps forehead*
>
> Can I suggest an idiot-message for when the poor sap at the keyboard is
> hurrying to get the system back up and usable? When "svnadmin recover" is
> run, have it output something like "WARNING! MAKE SURE YOU TAKE DOWN THE WEB
> SERVER BEFORE RUNNING THIS COMMAND, BECAUSE IF YOUR REPOSITORY IS ACCESSED
> DURING THE PROCESS THEN YOU'RE HOSED! Continue? (y/n)"
>
> > WARNING: you can seriously corrupt your repository if you run recover
> > and another process accesses the repository.
> >
> > Please, please, be careful with recover people. There isn't
> > a warning in
> > the FAQ for nothing:
> >
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#wedged-repos
> >
> >
> > Sander
> >
>
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