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Re: [RFC/PATCH] svnadmin: recover/hotcopy erroring out for old FSFS repositories

From: Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:57:28 +0400

On 31 January 2014 05:50, Evgeny Kotkov <evgeny.kotkov_at_visualsvn.com> wrote:
>> This only affects non-sharded repositories with rev-local IDs,
>> i.e. those in SVN 1.4 format. For those, it is writing 3 files
>> instead of 2 per rev now.
>
> I assume you are talking about r1560723 [1]. If I read the code correctly...
> [[[
> if ( (!max_files_per_dir || rev % max_files_per_dir == 0)
> && dst_ffd->format >= SVN_FS_FS__MIN_NO_GLOBAL_IDS_FORMAT)
> SVN_ERR(hotcopy_update_current(&dst_youngest, dst_fs, rev, iterpool));
> ]]]
>
> ...hotcopy now checkpoints after every revision for all non-sharded repositories
> with FSFS format >= 3. So, checkpointing happens for all FSFS format 1/2
> repositories upgraded via 'svnadmin upgrade' (with linear layout), that were
> not fsfs-reshard'ed or dump/loaded into a repository with newer format.
>
> I am not aware of how many people reshard or dump/load their old repositories
> after upgrade, but I did a quick benchmark for a real-world repository and on my
> machine it shows 7x performance degradation with checkpointing enabled. Is it
> worth the ability to re-run the backup from a checkpoint upon cancellation?
>
> [[[
> # svnrdump http://googletest.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
> # load the dump into a --compatible-version=1.3 repository
> # upgrade the repository with the most recent svnadmin
>
> # disable checkpointing, benchmark making 100 hotcopy backups:
> real 0m18.741s
> user 0m2.552s
> sys 0m13.432s
>
> # now enable checkpointing and repeat the benchmark:
> real 2m5.793s
> user 0m0.836s
> sys 0m34.840s
> ]]]
>
> [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=r1560723
>
That's what I suspected. In this case I think r1560723 should not be
backported to 1.8.x for the following reasons:
1. Significant performance degradation for 'svnadmin hotcopy' with
'--incremental' flag.
2. The change doesn't fix original circular dependency problem in FSFS
3. 'svnadmin recover' writes fake value to CURRENT file which very bad
practice IMHO and could lead undefined consequences.

-- 
Ivan Zhakov
CTO | VisualSVN | http://www.visualsvn.com
Received on 2014-01-31 11:58:28 CET

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