Wrong value in db/format when creating from TortoiseSVN

I have the subversion server running on a Debian Linux machine. The
repositories are residing on a Windows domain shared network drive on the
network which is mapped on the Linux machine as:
mount -t cifs //software/svn_repositories /var/lib/svn/ -o
username=mynet/techgeek,password=******,uid=www-data,gid=subversion,iocharset=utf8

All the developers/users access the repositories using TortoiseSVN client
from Windows machine.

The problem is that if the repositories were created from TortoiseSVN then
upon accessing the repositories (For example http://svnserver/svnrepos) I
get:
human-readable errcode="160043": Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

However, if I create new repositories from the Linux machine (on which
subversion is running), then everything works fine.

I noticed when creating repositories from TortoiseSVN the value in db/format
is "4" (non-working) and while creating repositories from Linux the value is
"3" (working). If I change the vaule from "4" to "3" for the repositories
that were created by TortoiseSVN then I do not longer get the above error
message.

Sounds like there is some incompatibility between the subversion engine (on
linux) and the TortoirseSVN.

I would like to enable developers/users to create repositories using
TortoiseSVN client. Do I have to live with this situation or is there a more
elegant workaround rather than changing the value of db/format file manually
everytime a new repository is created?

Thanks
Received on 2010-09-27 21:24:38 CEST