Re: Serving subversion with Apache on ZFS

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Webber <andy_at_aligature.com> wrote:
> I'm having a problem bringing up a subversion server on a new machine.
> Here's a quick summary of what I'm using.
>
> - PowerMac quad-core Xeon
> - Mac OS 10.5.2
> - Apache 2.2.6 (64-bit)
> - Subversion 1.4.6 built my me with CFLAGS=-m64
> - FSFS repository
> - Mode 777 recursively set on the repository
> - The repository is on a ZFS filesystem
>
> When I attempt to access the repository I get the following error in my
> apache logs:
>
> [Sun Mar 02 11:56:57 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.6
> OpenSSL/0.9.7l DAV/2 SVN/1.4.6 configured -- resuming normal operations
> [Sun Mar 02 11:57:03 2008] [error] [client 68.162.106.61] (20014)Internal
> error: Can't open file '/docs/code/svn/format': Permission denied
> [Sun Mar 02 11:57:03 2008] [error] [client 68.162.106.61] Could not fetch
> resource information. [500, #0]
> [Sun Mar 02 11:57:03 2008] [error] [client 68.162.106.61] Could not open the
> requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]
> [Sun Mar 02 11:57:03 2008] [error] [client 68.162.106.61] Could not open the
> requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]
>
> If I move the repository to an HFS+ filesystem, I can access it through
> apache. Also, I can access the repository on ZFS normally using the
> file:/// protocol. Therefore, the problem seems to stem from using apache
> with ZFS. I know that ZFS on mac is a little new at this point, but I was
> surprised that it didn't "just work".
>
> Does the subversion code specially look for resource files when running on a
> mac?
> I don't think that ZFS uses resource files. Could that be confusing
> subversion somehow?
> Are other people able to serve subversion on ZFS on Solaris 10?
>
> I'm not sure if there might need to be code changes in subversion (maybe
> core code or apache module) to support ZFS. I haven't contributed to
> subversion before, but I'm an experienced C++ developer and wouldn't mind
> getting my feet wet.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

Are you sure that permissions were set correctly so that whatever user
Apache runs as can access the repository (specifically
/docs/code/svn/format)?

And this question really belongs on users_at_subversion.tigris.org.

--dave

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David Glasser | glasser@davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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