Re: Locking server implementation: libsvn_repos or libsvn_fs

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:08:36 -0400, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 10:49, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > I'm not worried about this. If we decide to implement locks in the
> > repos library, we can use "some random dbm"... whatever happens to be
> > picked up by APR. I believe that APR *always* picks up some system dbm
> > library. There's a whole apr_dbm_*() set of APIs, and mod_dav_svn
> > already uses them to manage a private table in repos/dav/.... even when
> > the repository itself is fsfs.
>
> "Some random dbm" won't work over NFS or another remote filesystem.
> mod_dav_svn does not keep its activity db inside the repository.

Really? Then what is the "dav" subdirectory of repositories for?

Max.

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Received on Sat Oct 30 15:42:43 2004