Hassles using FSFS on win98

[John Dubery <jd...@ukonline.co.uk>]

Hi,

I've been using SVN for a while in win2k/winXP happily, and want to get it
going on win98 too. OK, I know that a BDB repository does not work on win98,
but I believe that FSFS should.

Results with FSFS - I can create a repository, import files, and export
files quite fine. However checkout fails with the following message -
======================
D:\Playground>svn checkout file:///d:/playground/rp rpc
svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///d:/playground/rp'
svn: Can't get shared lock on file 'd:/playground/rp/locks/db.lock': The
process
 cannot access the file because  another process has locked a portion of the
file.

D:\Playground>
======================

Any suggestions?

John Dubery

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Re: Hassles using FSFS on win98

[Hermann Voßeler <he...@baaderbank.de>]

John Dubery wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been using SVN for a while in win2k/winXP happily, and want to
> get it going on win98 too. OK, I know that a BDB repository does not
> work on win98, but I believe that FSFS should.
> 
> Results with FSFS - I can create a repository, import files, and
> export files quite fine. However checkout fails with the following
> message 

Hi,

IIRC, some weeks ago there was some diskussion on this issue.
It was guessed, that the file locking support in Win98 (SE) differs/
or is somewhat limited/broken (APR silently maps shared locks to
exclusive locks, so every operation opening the repo twice will fail).

Someone argued that Win98 SE is "old" and no "modern OS" and needn't be
supported any longer (for Server/local Repo) because it is "dying"
anyway.

Personally, I don't consider this right, because there still are a lot
of boxes out there that won't ever be upgraded, but Win 98 SE just
works fine and nothing is missing.
I myself use two systems at home and are bound to use CVS there at the
moment. :-(


> Results with FSFS - I can create a repository, import files, and 
> export files quite fine. However checkout fails ...
My experience is as follows:
Can't checkout/update with tortoise, but cmd line client works.

If the checkout creates a new directory, the dir. is created and
then the command fails with the given message.
A second try then does the rest of the work.
But I never managed to merge/patch.

Any new ideas / suggestions?
Did 1.1.2 change anything here?

-- 
Hermann Vosseler



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