RE: Proactive Question on setting up SVN repo

Can you install SVN on the NAS? I'm running a QNAP NAS at home with subversion on it.

Just an idea.

From: David White [mailto:dwrudy_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 7:56 AM
To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: Proactive Question on setting up SVN repo

We have a Blade Center downstairs with a NAS mounted to it for additional storage. I'm in the process of setting up a SVN server for folks in our company umbrella to use. My boss wants a folder on the NAS to be used as the repo storage location, due to the extra space and redundancy we have on it. Thus...

I have SVN 1.6.11 installed on a fresh install of CentOS 6 (on the Blade Center). I have mounted the NAS running NFS to be used as the repository storage location on /var/svn/. When I run "svnadmin create /var/svn/new-repo", it hangs for a few seconds, and then says (twice) "svnadmin: database is locked". However, when I go into "new-repo" and run ls -la, I see the subversion skeleton files.

After lots of googling and brainstorming, I finally edited /etc/fstab and added the "nolock" option to the NFS partition when it gets mounted (and then these errors went away).

I do understand folks' hesitation to use a network file system as the location for repositories. I have hidden the folder on the NAS, and have set permissions appropriately so only the authorized people (who know that messing with SVN repo files manually can royally screw everything up). All of this aside....

Do you forsee problems with the NAS being mounted with the "nolock" option? In /etc/fstab, the line looks like this:

{private-ip}:/volume1/svn /var/svn nfs nolock 0 0

My guess is, if you get two people trying to do commits at the same time (which is unlikely right now, but as we grow, could become more possible), things could get corrupted. So, how worried should I be about this? If it's going to cause royal pains in the future, how would you suggest I fix the "database is locked" error message when the nolock isn't enabled on the mount?

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