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Re: Question about Subversion in combination with Samba

From: Wolfgang Stengel <wolfgang.stengel_at_efactory.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:51:32 +0100

Hi Andy,

Am 12.03.2013 18:44, schrieb Andy Levy:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Wolfgang Stengel
> <wolfgang.stengel_at_efactory.de <mailto:wolfgang.stengel_at_efactory.de>>
> wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> since a couple of weeks commits from a Windows system in a Samba
> shared WC take much longer than before (using Windows 7,
> Subversion client 1.7.8).
>
> I tracked this down to Subversion accessing .svn/wc.db-journal and
> .svn/wc.db-wal over and over again (thousands of times). Both
> files do not exist in the WC. It looks like this in the Samba log:
>
> [2013/03/12 12:47:19.260464, 3] smbd/process.c:1662(process_smb)
> Transaction 719619 of length 150 (0 toread)
> [2013/03/12 12:47:19.260507, 3]
> smbd/process.c:1467(switch_message)
> switch message SMBtrans2 (pid 28855) conn 0x7fab8064b800
> [2013/03/12 12:47:19.260542, 3]
> smbd/trans2.c:5117(call_trans2qfilepathinfo)
> call_trans2qfilepathinfo: TRANSACT2_QPATHINFO: level = 1004
> [2013/03/12 12:47:19.260608, 3]
> smbd/vfs.c:905(check_reduced_name)
> check_reduced_name [epson_neon_test/.svn/wc.db-journal]
> [/home/wwwdocs/svn/wolfgang]
> [2013/03/12 12:47:19.260663, 3]
> smbd/vfs.c:1039(check_reduced_name)
> check_reduced_name: epson_neon_test/.svn/wc.db-journal
> reduced to
> /home/wwwdocs/svn/wolfgang/epson_neon_test/.svn/wc.db-journal
> [2013/03/12 12:47:19.260733, 3]
> smbd/trans2.c:5236(call_trans2qfilepathinfo)
> call_trans2qfilepathinfo: SMB_VFS_STAT of
> epson_neon_test/.svn/wc.db-journal failed (No such file or
> directory)
> [2013/03/12 12:47:19.260777, 3] smbd/error.c:81(error_packet_set)
> error packet at smbd/trans2.c(5238) cmd=50 (SMBtrans2)
> NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
> [2013/03/12 12:47:19.261117, 3] smbd/process.c:1662(process_smb)
> Transaction 719620 of length 142 (0 toread)
> [2013/03/12 12:47:19.261160, 3]
> smbd/process.c:1467(switch_message)
> switch message SMBtrans2 (pid 28855) conn 0x7fab8064b800
> [2013/03/12 12:47:19.261195, 3]
> smbd/trans2.c:5117(call_trans2qfilepathinfo)
> call_trans2qfilepathinfo: TRANSACT2_QPATHINFO: level = 1004
> [2013/03/12 12:47:19.261260, 3]
> smbd/vfs.c:905(check_reduced_name)
> check_reduced_name [epson_neon_test/.svn/wc.db-wal]
> [/home/wwwdocs/svn/wolfgang]
> [2013/03/12 12:47:19.261314, 3]
> smbd/vfs.c:1039(check_reduced_name)
> check_reduced_name: epson_neon_test/.svn/wc.db-wal reduced
> to /home/wwwdocs/svn/wolfgang/epson_neon_test/.svn/wc.db-wal
> [2013/03/12 12:47:19.261349, 3]
> smbd/trans2.c:5236(call_trans2qfilepathinfo)
> call_trans2qfilepathinfo: SMB_VFS_STAT of
> epson_neon_test/.svn/wc.db-wal failed (No such file or directory)
> [2013/03/12 12:47:19.261385, 3] smbd/error.c:81(error_packet_set)
> error packet at smbd/trans2.c(5238) cmd=50 (SMBtrans2)
> NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
>
>
> My question is, is this intended behaviour and just a downside of
> using a network drive, or is this a bug?
>
>
> WCs on network drives have never been a recommended or officially
> supported configuration, due to variations in permissions handling &
> locking schemes between different protocols and implementations. As
> Subversion has moved more and more to a database-driven model for the
> WC, this has become more true from what I've gathered.
>
> (Versions are Windows 7, Subversion client 1.7.8
>
>
> What Samba version?
>

The version is 3.6.3, however I think all these requests originate from
the Subversion client itself... is it known why these two files are
checked repeatedly although they do not exist (at this time at least)?

Wolfgang
Received on 2013-03-13 08:52:04 CET

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