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Re: I lost 7 bdb repositories yesterday!

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-07-05 14:25:24 CEST

On Jul 4, 2005, at 11:35 PM, Jeff Lasslett wrote:

>
>
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
>> On Jul 4, 2005, at 9:20 PM, Adrian Hoe wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> So our big mistake here was not realizing how 'brittle' (easy
>>>> to wedge) BDB would be, in the absence of a central daemon.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What is the reason for subversion development team to choose
>>> this unstable (unstable or error prone?) implementation?
>>>
>> We didn't have our crystal balls handy? :-)
>>
>
> What are the barriers to reworking it?

Our options are either to create an 'svnd' and force libsvn_fs (and
thus any program using libsvn_fs) to speak some sort of RPC to it...
or to work with sleepycat on BDB 4.4, which is supposed to auto-
detect and auto-recover itself. We've chosen the latter path for now.

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