From: "Brett H. Williams" <brett_williams@...>
Date: 2003-07-25T09:02:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] subversion, was [ANN] RubyForge.org

On Jul 25, Brett H. Williams wrote:
> On Jul 25, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Hmm... upon a reread you are saying more than I first thought.
Basically you are saying that if someone does svnadmin recover while
someone else is attempting to access the repository, that we will have a
worse failure than DB corruption?

That may indeed have been what happened.