From: "Brett H. Williams" <brett_williams@...>
Date: 2003-07-25T09:00:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] subversion, was [ANN] RubyForge.org

On Jul 25, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> Did you fly any of these database problems by the subversion
> developers, to see if they had any ideas as to the causes?  I
> haven't used subversion at all, but one of my friends works a
> lot with it.  I'm certainly hoping to see problems like this
> addressed.

We didn't, as the problems are documented there as known.

> When I asked my friend about this, he said there were several
> cases of problems when some user runs 'svnadmin recover' on
> a repository that people were still accessing.  Is it possible
> that you would have run into that?  (I don't even know what
> the "recover" would be used for...)

Yes, these are the sorts of problems we continually encountered.  But
until you do that no one can do anything with the repository, and you
must run svn admin on the machine that is hosting the repository (at
least in our experience).

Basically, the current DB behind subversion is a Berkeley DB.
Apparently this DB gets corrupted.