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Re: Lack of Subversion repository recovery tools

From: Toby Thain <toby_at_smartgames.ca>
Date: 2007-07-04 19:56:07 CEST

On 4-Jul-07, at 2:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Melikian, Chris wrote:
>> That is a 100% correct description of my gripe. I'm stuck with a
>> repository I can't dump because a revision is corrupt and can't be
>> fixed
>> with fsfsverify, a 3rd party tool with no support (officially but
>> John
>> has been very helpful!).
>> I'm seriously doubting the production readiness of subversion with
>> fsfs.
>> I'm going to look into subversion with bdb but I'm facing increasing
>> pressure to move to ClearCase which I am very loathed to do. I can't
>> defend subversion/fsfs as it stands.
>
> Do you happen to know why you have a corrupt revision? If it is a
> hardware problem or underlying filesystem issue there's not much
> reason to think that any other software would handle it any better.

Exactly.

David is one of the few who seems to have experienced a real-life
corruption, was that definitely due to a software bug? Or is nobody
sure?

--Toby

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