G'day Lance,
This is actually a Berkeley DB requirement and has been covered
numerous times on this list. I believe it's also described in the
SVN book.
Perhaps someone from the dev team could let us know if the planned
non-BDB backend loosens up this requirement in any way?
Cheers,
Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lsloan@l.imap.itd.umich.edu
> [mailto:lsloan@l.imap.itd.umich.edu] On Behalf Of Lance E Sloan
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 July 2004 9:58am
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: trouble locking on remote filesystems
>
>
> I'm very new to Subversion. I just installed it on my Mac OS X 10.3
> machine using Fink. I installed the svn and svn-client
> packages and their
> dependencies. I'm working with it now, but at first, I was
> getting this
> message in response to my "svn import":
>
> Can't get shared lock on file
> '/Volumes/Slave/svntest/locks/db.lock':
> Operation not supported
>
> That's on a volume remotely mounted from another computer on
> the network
> using AFP. After a while, I remembered that some types of
> locking do not
> work on filesystems mounted from remote hosts. So I tried using a
> repository on my local drive instead and all was good. I
> tried using a
> filesystem mounted with SMB to see what would happen and that
> failed, too.
>
> If this is a FAQ or a case of RTFM, let me know. I think it
> would be great
> if Subversion could use some sort of locking methods that would work
> equally well on local filesystems or those mounted from a remote host.
>
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