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Re: "database disk image is malformed"

From: Evan Driscoll <driscoll_at_cs.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:31:32 -0600

On 1/27/2012 3:41, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Evan Driscoll wrote on Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 15:04:43 -0600:
>> 1. Did removing rep-cache.db fix it, or is there still a potential for
>> some latent repository corruption?
>
> Yes. rep-cache.db is used by the commit process. If that file was
> silently corrupted, it's possible that the text: and props:
> lines on node-revisions point to invalid data. (In English: versioned
> properties, file contents, and symlinks targets may be affected.)
>
> I think the list archives and the developer docs explain this, so I'm
> not going into detail here. But feel free to follow up (on list) if you
> have questions that those don't cover.

I ran 'svnadmin verify' (as Mark Cooke suggested) and it did not
indicate any problems. Does that mean there aren't any (or that the
probability is vanishingly small)?

Evan

Received on 2012-01-27 17:32:51 CET

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