files in db/locks

Hello,

I'm wondering about some files in the subfolders of db/locks (Subversion
1.6, FSFS). The existence of a lot of files in this directory seems to
slow down some operations, especially with TortoiseSVN. I understand,
that each locked file in the repository leads to a file (or two?) in
db/locks. But what is the intention of files in this directory, if there
are no locks in a repository?

We have a repository, which had some locked files. These locks have been
removed and the output of 'svnadmin lslocks ...' is empty, now. But
db/locks still contains files. All of them look like the example below.
They contain only a different amount of hashes, but no path to locked
files in the repository.

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K 8
children
V 99
a9025cf28195868e96018bbceeda0822
d2fb526b8531d2ad89ddb92cfd0b9db4
00ff6f20f3a3286f3c9567e346ddd755

END
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I found some explanation about the internal structure of FSFS, but
didn't understand all parts regarding the db/lock folder:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/structure

I'm not subscribed to this list and would appreciate being explicitly
Cc:ed in any response. Thanks.

Ingo
Received on 2012-08-10 07:51:19 CEST