[Linux-cluster] Subversion?

[Aneesh Kumar K.V]

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> 
> Subversion is an easy install. There is another negative, though: the 
> current release of Subversion uses Berkeley DB as its storage means, and 
> we've had problems with it getting randomly locked and causing issues. 
> We don't know if this is due to running ViewCVS against the repo as 
> well, or what else it may be. Given the problems we've had, we are 
> anxiously awaiting the 1.1 release of Subversion that will have a 
> filesystem-based backend, rather than bdb.
> 

I hit this last weekend. My subversion crashed/locked completely. I am 
not sure whether it is a lockup or a crash. But there is nothing you can 
do by going to the repo directory. BTW I didn't attempt to recover it.

-aneesh