RE: svnadmin verify changing its diagnosis?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Hubbard [mailto:Rob.Hubbard@celoxica.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 5:38 AM
> To: Reedick, Andrew; users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: svnadmin verify changing its diagnosis?
>
> I'm afraid that this is not an answer to your question.
>
> Are you using an filing system or a database backend? (I
> believe that this is indicated by the contents of the file
> db/fs-type in the repository.)
>
> Also, did you see the problem more than once?
>
> The reason for asking is that, if I understand correctly, the
> DB backend stores changes as reverse deltas backwards from
> the head revision, whereas the FS backend stores them as
> forwards deltas forwards from revision 0. So, only the
> database backend recalculates a chain of deltas during a commit.
>
> I wonder if it's possible that the problem has disappeared
> due to a faulty delta being recalculated (following a commit).
>
>

I'm using fsfs. And verify still comes up clean. So either verify, the
hardware, or the OS hiccuped for no apparent reason.

> Alternatively, I wonder whether it's possible to run svnadmin
> verify during a commit, and that what you saw was a
> repository database in a transient state.

fsfs appears to store each revision as a single file, so a transaction
in progress shouldn't affect a read only look at an early delta.

I'm going to chalk this one up to cosmic rays and just keep an eye out.

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Received on Fri Oct 6 16:29:58 2006