Re: Working copy on a network share

On Friday 23 September 2005 11:35, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Wait, what? Are you saying that your BerkeleyDB-based repository is
> stored on a Samba share? If so, that would be a bad idea; a
> BerkeleyDB-based repository should only be stored on a local disk.

Agreed. I'm not doing this.

> I think you're instead saying that your repository is BerkeleyDB-
> based, and that it is on a local disk on the server, but that your
> working copy is on a Samba share, and that this is not working. If
> so, that should be unrelated to the storage engine used for the
> repository.

My working copy is BerkelyDB based and is stored on a samba share.

The problem is that, during update or commit, I get the error:

svn: Can't move '.svn/tmp/entries' to '.svn/entries': Permission denied.

Quite simply, the file '.svn/entries' does not have the write permission set
so the move from '.svn/tmp/entries' to '.svn/entries' fails. Maybe this is
related to my particular samba configuration. However, my feeling is that
svn is explicitly removing the write permission on .svn/entries when it is
created.

The fix that I made was to always set the write bit before trying to remove or
overwrite(when moving) any file. This probably isn't the best way of doing
things as it no longer respects the write protected status of any file. The
most correct thing to do would be to explicity set the write permission
on .svn/entries (or any other known file) before trying to overwrite or
remove.

I was wondering if this was happening with the fsfs backend.

Has anyone else had this problem? (i'm using v1.1.4).

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Received on Fri Sep 23 13:17:06 2005