Problem: No locks on network drive

[Klaus Rogall <kl...@web.de>]

Hello,

I created a SVN repository on a network drive. When connecting with a 
client I get an error because SVN can't create a lock file. (Doing the 
same on a local drive works fine, so it's definitly the network drive).

A possible solution would be to seperate the locks (and other 
administration files) from the repository data.

My Question: is there a possibility to tell the SVN server to put the 
lock files to a seperate place (on local drive). Or the other way: can I 
create a repository on a local file, but configure the SVN server or the 
repository in a way that the server expect the repository data files on 
another location (network drive)? Are there any parameters I can user or 
configurations I can do ("svnserve.conf" or anywhere else)?

I'm working on WinXP with SVN 1.3, the network drive simply is a 
harddisk in a NAS unit.

Thanks for anyone who knows an answer.

Klaus Rogall,


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Re: Problem: No locks on network drive

[Ulrich Eckhardt <ec...@satorlaser.com>]

On Saturday 17 June 2006 13:45, Klaus Rogall wrote:
> I created a SVN repository on a network drive. When connecting with a
> client I get an error because SVN can't create a lock file. (Doing the
> same on a local drive works fine, so it's definitly the network drive).
>
> A possible solution would be to seperate the locks (and other
> administration files) from the repository data.

You mean, like every user has their own local directory where they put 
lockfiles? The very idea of lockfiles is that they coordinate access to a 
resource that can't be accessed concurrently. In order to do that in the most 
secure way, these lockfiles must be on the very same disk that the locked 
files are on, so while what you ask for is possible, it would break the 
effectiveness of these lockfiles and the data integrity of Subversion.


> My Question: is there a possibility to tell the SVN server to put the
> lock files to a seperate place (on local drive). Or the other way: can I
> create a repository on a local file, but configure the SVN server or the
> repository in a way that the server expect the repository data files on
> another location (network drive)? Are there any parameters I can user or
> configurations I can do ("svnserve.conf" or anywhere else)?

The typical advise is to simply not do that. Instead of serving the repository 
itself via a network filesystem, start svnserve to serve the repository via 
the svn protocol.

Uli

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