Hi Markus, * Markus Schaber [2012-04-23 14:53]: > Hi, Florian, > > Von: Florian Kolter [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > since upgrading svn from 1.6.16 (TortoiseSVN 1.6.15) to 1.7.4 (TortoiseSVN > > 1.7.6) my working copies are very often corrupted and clean up can't > > recover them. Unfortunately this happens sporadically and I can't > > reproduce it with a demo repository. But maybe you have an idea. > > > > I'm working inside a VMWare image, accessing the host's working copies > > using shared folders. I must not change this special setup. > > > > Can two TSVNCache processes accessing the same working copy (SQLite > > database) produce any damage? SVN 1.6.x worked just fine. > > Accessing the same working copy from several processes works fine as long as > the locking works fine. > > However, locking over network file systems has issues in some cases, and > VirtualBox uses network file system emulation for the shared folders for > windows guests. > > So my hint is that you check with the VirtualBox folks whether they know of > any issues with locking on shared folders. (Maybe simply updating VirtualBox > or the guest utils helps. :-)
Thanks for your tip. I can try to find out what VMWare's implementation does or if there is an update. However I have been working this way for years with Subversion 1.6 and never experienced any problem. Was this kind of locking introduced in Subversion 1.7? Because of SQLite? Best regards, Florian
