From: Garance A Drosihn Date: 2003-07-25T09:47:23+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] subversion, was [ANN] RubyForge.org At 9:02 AM +0900 7/25/03, Brett H. Williams wrote: >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...) > >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? Yes, that is what he told me. Well, "more DB corruption", such that one recover may appear to succeed, but it will set you up for a subsequent DB corruption. >That may indeed have been what happened. Okay. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu