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Re: DB corruption of first day of subversion

From: Alex R. Mosteo <alejandro_at_mosteo.com>
Date: 2004-11-11 12:14:35 CET

Ritesh Nadhani wrote:
> Hello,
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com>
>>
>> - Avoid BerkeleyDB
>
>
> Even I am use BerkelyDB. Do you say I should use FSFS?

I have had problems with BDB. I haven't had problems with FSFS. It's
only my experience, but if I remember well, I still haven't heard a
single complaint of corruption from someone using FSFS. From BDB,
instead, you can find aplenty.

>
>> - Try some humongous imports/exports/commits/updates with lots of files.
>
>
> The funny part is that it was doing ok with 2-3 commits for around 1
> day. After that I did one full checkout and one full commit from my home
> machine to the server and then it started failing everytime. The
> checkout was of around 10MB (it included doxygen documentation for the
> whole source code). Do you think that might be the reason and I move to
> FSFS?

"Failing everytime". What that means? In my case, the repository seemed
locked forever and coulnd't be recovered. What I mean is that there
weren't error messages after the one in the first failure, nor
progressive corruption... A failed commit and then nothing in any operation.

>> - Make backups :)
>
> For this to happen, my subversion has to work for atleast one week :)

That's the same period I use.

My bottom line: if you haven't any special reason to use BDB, give FSFS
a try.

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