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RE: On recent BDB usage issues

From: Guido Anzuoni <Guido.Anzuoni_at_technomind.it>
Date: 2005-07-11 16:21:27 CEST

Nice to know, but, maybe, I have misunderstood something.
There has been a reply from Ben Collins-Sussman (on 5th of July) on
svnserve access
that seems to say that even with a single access method you could cause
trouble
because of (possibly) multiple server-side processes linked to libsvn_fs
concurrently
accessing repository.
My undestanding of the problem is that the issues are not related to a
specific
access method but to the way independent processes coordinate themselves
in the
usage of BDB.
Isn't it ?

Guido.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@ukf.net]
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 11:52 PM
> To: Guido Anzuoni; users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: On recent BDB usage issues
>
> Guido Anzuoni wrote:
> > I have read about all posts on " I lost 7 bdb repositories
> yesterday!
> >
> <http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgN
> o=35037> "
> > and I am
> > a little scared about the issues regarding BDB peculiar
> usage made by SVN.
> > But, even if so much has been said, I think that a clear word from
> > SVN/BDB guru should come.
> > The question is quite simple: is there ***any*** configuration to
> > safely run Subversion with BDB ?
> > For what I have read, allowing access only thru svnserve is
> not safe.
> > I think that the same applies to Apache.
> > Should I conclude that the only safe way is to have a single user
> > access without hooks accessing the repository ?
>
> No.
>
> There is absolutely nothing wrong with running local,
> svnserve, and apache access to a BDB repository simultaneously.
>
> Yes, there have been some curious BDB horror stories, but
> there is no reason to suspect specific access methods as the cause.
>
> Max.
>
>
>

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