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Re: Unexpected files in folder repository\db\...

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 00:17:44 +0200

Ryan Schmidt wrote on Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 14:33:18 -0600:
> On Dec 5, 2011, at 08:32, Martin Bischoff wrote:
>
> > -> is it expected that such transaction and locks files and folders remain in the db folder or is this an indication that there is a problem?
>
>
> Dead transactions can occur:
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.diskspace.deadtxns
>
> Dead locks, not sure how that happened but you can probably use
> rmlocks to get rid of them.

Assuming FSFS.

db/locks/ contains a directory per *path component* in the locked file
(eg, three entries for /trunk/README). Likely, once created, those dirs
are only emptied, not removed (see subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/lock.c).
Therefore, an 'svn lock; svn unlock;' cycle would leave a few dirs
behind.

It's safe to remove empty dirs whilst no 'svn lock' operating is
running, or while holding an appropriate write lock.

>
Received on 2011-12-05 23:18:40 CET

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