Re: "Offset too large" error when packing repository in FSFS 7 format

On 27.08.2016 10:59, Stefan Fuhrmann wrote:
> On 22.08.2016 11:38, Radek Krotil wrote:
>> The repository contains 334243 revisions total. As suggested by
>> Stefan, I did the grep on the problematic repo file. The rev 203908
>> is about 231 MB big. This confirms my suspicion that the problem is
>> related to big revision data.
> Well, that is at least conceivable: Larger revisions
> with many changed nodes come with larger index
> information. There might be bugs along the line of
> "this time we need one more page than usually".

Update: It seems that is exactly what is happening.
Whenever a pack would contain >300000 "items",
or roughly 150 changes / rev on average, pack
will always fail.

 From what I can see, no data will be corrupted. You
may even retry packing with a fixed version of svnadmin
and the process should complete just fine.

I'm now able to reproduce the issue and fixes should
be available with the next 1.9.x release.

A workaround is possible with the attached patch
(you may raise the limit even further if need be and
you are using 64 bit binaries).

-- Stefan^2.