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Re: Linux svn clients > 1.7 have issues operating on WC which physically lives on Windows shares

From: Adam Daughterson <adam.daughterson_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 17:29:02 -0800 (PST)

On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 3:05:37 PM UTC-7, Ben Reser wrote:
>
> On 12/4/13 12:59 PM, Adam Daughterson wrote:
> > Prior to upgrading to WanDisco svn client 1.7.x I was able to operate on
> > working copies which physically live on Windows shares. After the
> upgrade, I
> > get the following error when trying to do a fresh checkout:
> >
> > me@here:tmp$ svn co http://myThing/trunk myThing
> > *svn: E200030: sqlite[S22]: large file support is disabled*
> >
> > I've verified that I can perform this same operation on a Linux samba
> share
> > with the new clients, and nothing has changed on the Windows side of
> things.
> >
> > Anyone have any idea as to WTH this is all about?
>
> Subversion 1.7 moved from having .svn directories in each directory and
> flat
> file entries files to maintain the state of the working copy to using a
> single
> .svn directory at the root of the working copy and a sqlite database.
>
> The error you're getting is because the working copy database file
> (myThing/.svn/wc.db in your case) is larger than 2GB. Your Windows server
> may
> not support files over 2GB.
>
> You might try adding the lfs flag to the mount options when you mount it
> to
> tell Linux to enable large file support on the mount.
>
> I'm not personally familiar enough with the specifics of what needs to be
> done
> on the Windows side to support this or which versions of Windows support
> it to
> help you there.
>
> All that said, if you have that large of a working copy database, I doubt
> you're going to have very good performance using the working copy over a
> network share.
>

The really interesting part is that the file in question is only 119k, so
that's nice and weird...

me_at_here:myThing$ ls -alh .svn
total 144K
drwxr-xr-x 4 adaughterson adaughterson 4.0K 2013-12-02 15:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 adaughterson adaughterson 4.0K 2013-12-02 15:41 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 adaughterson adaughterson 3 2013-12-02 15:41 entries
-rw-r--r-- 1 adaughterson adaughterson 3 2013-12-02 15:41 format
drwxr-xr-x 97 adaughterson adaughterson 4.0K 2013-12-02 15:41 pristine
drwxr-xr-x 5 adaughterson adaughterson 4.0K 2013-12-02 15:41 tmp

*-rw-r--r-- 1 adaughterson adaughterson 119K 2013-12-02 15:42 wc.db*
Adam
Received on 2013-12-05 02:29:36 CET

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