Re: svn hotcopy incremental overwrites existing revisions in backup

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:02:38PM -0700, lumi wrote:
> Isn't it a mistake in method of getting file size on deduplicated volume?

Subversion asks APR (a portability library) for the filesize.
APR does something to find that size. Subversion uses the value reported
by APR, and Subversion does not care about how APR figured it out.

So if there is a problem with how the size is determined on Windows with
NTFS de-duplication enabled, then this problem is probably located in APR
and should be fixed there. The APR project is at https://apr.apache.org

That said, if you know of a way to find the correct size with the win32 API
we could probably patch Subversion to bypass APR for this specific case.
But APR would have to be fixed anyway.
Received on 2017-05-16 21:28:35 CEST