Re: svn_fs/svn_repo repository lock API

On 08/22/2012 03:39 PM, Philip Martin wrote:
> 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.

Strictly speaking, this is not quite true -- BDB commits may freely be
started and completed here because you're taking a lock at the svn_repos
level instead of the svn_fs one. But I fully recognize the challenges of
doing things any other way, so I merely recommend that you document this
detail well. :-)

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