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Re: Repository Corruption

From: Peter N. Lundblad <peter_at_famlundblad.se>
Date: 2005-08-17 10:33:07 CEST

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Koffie Yahoo wrote:

> On 8/16/05, D.J. Heap <dj@shadyvale.net> wrote:
> > > Koffie Yahoo wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> When I tried to commit to one of my repositories yesterday, the commit
> > >> failed with a check sum error. After getting this error I (maybe stupid
> > >> enough) ran svnadmin recover on the repository.
> > >>
> > >> I'm now getting the following errors (copy-n-paste from my prompt, where
> > >> h:/dis_repro is the repository, where bla is an empty directory, and
> > >> where
> > >> dis2 holds a checkout copy from before the corruption):
> > >>
> > [snip]
> >
> > The H: drive is not a network drive/mount of some sort is it? Just in case
> > you didn't know:
> >
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#nfs
>
> I'm aware of the nfs problem. H: is a usb memory stick. So, actually the only
> cause of the repository corruption I could think of I that I
> inadvertently removed
> the memory stick while data needed still to be written.
>
I wouldn't rely on a memory stick for a repository because I wouldn't be
very confident in the quality of such gadgets. Hope you have a good
backup.

(I don't know your particular situation; this is just a general comment.)

Regards,
//Peter

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