On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:46:05AM +0200, Tobias Bading wrote:
> Hi,
>
> follow-up regarding my problems with "database is locked" errors when trying
> to access a Subversion 1.8 working copy located on an AIX machine remotely
> via
> SMB from a GNU/Linux machine:
>
> - A Windows SMB share causes the same errors, so it's not specific to Samba.
>
> - The problem can be circumvented by mounting the SMB share with option
> 'nobrl'. From the mount.cifs(8) man page:
>
> nobrl
> Do not send byte range lock requests to the server. This is
> necessary
> for certain applications that break with cifs style mandatory byte
> range locks (and most cifs servers do not yet support requesting
> advisory byte range locks).
>
> I'm currently giving the 'nobrl' option in combination with
>
> [working-copy]
> exclusive-locking-clients = svn
>
> in ~/.subversion/config a try. So far it seems to work just fine. :-)
>
> Tobias
Hi Tobias,
That's very nice!
Would be able to prepare a patch against our FAQ to document this?
Perhaps this entry could be extended:
http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#nfs
Source code of the website is here:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/site/publish/
Received on 2014-04-09 12:20:38 CEST