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Re: [PATCH] svnadmin build-repcache command

From: Nathan Hartman <hartman.nathan_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 16:06:38 -0400

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 3:54 PM Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:50:12PM +0300, Denis Kovalchuk wrote:
> > Because the root cause of the problem was unclear to me I investigated
> it.
> >
> > svn_fs_fs__fixup_expanded_size() function exists due to issue SVN-4554
> [1].
> > In this case, fsfs-v6 repository created with older binaries contains a
> > representation with "expanded size" field written on disk as 0. The fsfs
> code
> > assumes that this field has resolved value after the fixup, but because
> of the
> > missing calls it did not and contained 0. It caused the read
> representation
> > contents to be truncated to size of 0. In this case it is a directory
> > representation
> > and so the call to svn_fs_fs__rep_contents_dir() resulted in error. The
> error is
> > a checksum mismatch error where the actual checksum is a checksum of the
> > (truncated) empty string and the expected checksum is the one recorded in
> > the revision file.
> >
> > Thanks for your help and the fix!
> >
> > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4554
> >
>
> Great. Thank you, too, for following up and explaining the problem!
>
> I will again wait a while to see if voting in STATUS happens over the
> next few days. My opinion is that, ideally, we should get all current
> entries in STATUS reviewed and merged, and then roll the -rc2 release.

This is great news! Thank you and kudos to stsp for fixing the issue and to
Denis for tracking it down and explaining it.

Just FYI, I intend to vote soon, after I do a little bit more testing.

Thanks again to all,
Nathan
Received on 2020-04-01 22:06:53 CEST

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