Re: FreeBSD: 0.26 extremely unstable - SOLVED

Roman Neuhauser <dev-null@bellavista.cz> writes:

> # dev-null@bellavista.cz / 2003-08-19 14:06:04 +0200:
> > I don't know what to think about this: we're in rev 18, and the number
> > of times I had to run svnadmin recover is about the same. I'm not sure
> > if this is a Subversion or FreeBSD issue, so I'm cc'ing the port
> > maintainer.
>
> the problem turned out to be wrong umask: subversion/bdb creates
> log files ($REPOS/db/log.*) with 644. This makes a pretty poor
> comparison to CVS: Subversion can't cater for three users without
> hacking. (The handwaving in the handbook notwithstanding.)

You're kidding, right?

Ask Karl about how often this happens in CVS repositories. Answer:
ALL the time. When three cvs users all start modifying repository RCS
files, the most *common* problems is messed up permissions and/or
umasks.

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Received on Tue Aug 19 18:05:57 2003