Re: Read-Only file systems (Was: Worst Error Message?)

Stefan Sperling wrote on Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 10:22:23 +0200:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 10:09:06AM +0200, Markus Schaber wrote:
> > > <Bert> stsp: (re: users@) read only operations on a fsfs repository
> > don't
> > > obtain a lock (and don't need write access). Only commit and revprop
> > > changes should need write access. (I don't know what is required for
> > bdb).
> > > We don't use read locks, except for the sqlite (and maybe bdb) builtin
> > > ones.
> > > <danielsh> stsp: and packing
> >

The short answer is "read-only access doesn't require a writeable
mount".

The revprop packing feature /of Subversion 1.8/ will continue to
maintain this invariant. (The 1.7-dev incarnation of the feature
didn't, but it has been removed and won't be released.)

> > But AFAIR, V1.7 uses sqlite in the repository. Does that change
> > anything?
>
> The sqlite db is used for the revprop packing feature.

s/revprop packing/rep-sharing/

> This feature is only used at commit time. You cannot commit to a
> read-only repository anyway :)
>

To clarify: the rep-sharing SQLite DB is only accessed during commits.

Though, there is a standing backport for svn_fs_verify() which would
break that... I'll follow up on dev@.

> Subversion 1.6 uses sqlite for this, too, not just 1.7.
Received on 2011-08-02 12:26:28 CEST