Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Philip Martin
> <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>> Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> So, say for a standard 1.8 FSFS repository, is there a timeout for
>>> commits? What's the timeout (is it configurable?)? How will the commit
>>> fail when it reaches the timeout?
>>
>> I don't think there is a timeout for the main write-lock. There is a
>> 10s timeout for the rep-cache but rep-cache errors are non-fatal.
>
> So, while the repository is frozen, will a new commit fail immediately
> (with a clear error message)? Or will it hang (possibly indefinitely,
> in which case the client-side time-out will terminate things) until
> the repository is unfrozen?
Freeze takes the write-lock so things that require the write-lock will
block like all other blocks for the write-lock.
A new FSFS commit will block because it requires the write-lock to bump
the sequence number. Starting an FSFS freeze doesn't have to wait for
in-progress commits to finish. A FSFS commit in progress will be able to
continue modifying the transaction, as that doesn't require the
write-lock, but will block when it attempts to convert the transaction
into a revision.
I'm currently using BDB's svn_repos lock for the BDB freeze so that
makes a BDB repository completely unreadable while frozen. No BDB
commits can start while frozen. Starting a BDB freeze has to wait for
in-progress commits to finish.
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Received on 2012-08-22 21:40:26 CEST