On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 12:18:14PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 12:01, John Peacock wrote:
> > Just so everyone is on the same page, that means when recovering from a
> > backup/dumpfile, all locks are lost and cannot be recovered/recreated.
>
> If we implement locks in libsvn_repos, and are a little careful about
> it, we can probably just tell people to back up the locks table and
> restore it, much like the rest of the repository data (hooks, etc.).
>
> If we implement them in libsvn_fs, we probably want to think hard about
> being able to dump them, even if the default is to discard them on load.
>
> > Any WC's with lock tokens will have to gracefully handle that
> > inconsistency and the server will have to ignore lock releases for
> > unknown locks.
>
> To the WC, the server losing the lock table would look just like the
> lock being forcibly broken, so nothing new there.
>
Nothing new, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we shouldn't
include the locks in the dump, and let the administrator choose
whether or not to restore them at recovery time.
--ben
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Received on Fri Oct 29 18:36:43 2004