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

Thank you for the update and fix, Stefan!

I guess it’s no longer necessary to answer your questions from the previous
e-mail if you managed to reproduce the problem and provide a fix/workaround.

Looking forward to the new version of Subversion.

Best regards,

Radek Krotil

*From:* Stefan Fuhrmann [mailto:stefan2_at_apache.org]
*Sent:* Monday, August 29, 2016 10:14 AM
*To:* Radek Krotil; Daniel Shahaf
*Cc:* users_at_subversion.apache.org
*Subject:* 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:

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.
Received on 2016-08-29 10:29:01 CEST