Re: fsfs migration failure. File too large?? - Speculative Fix Attached

[Bryn Davies <cu...@progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

 Well, here are my patches to APR 0.9 and Subversion 1.0.9 to enable  
full 64 bit file sizes.  I wrote these patches in a text mode install  
of Ubuntu running on emulated x86 on a 1.25ghz PowerPC running  
MacOSX.  It was a _trail_of_tears_.  Since I don't have a failing svn  
case to test it with, I've been using a test program that does the  
following using the APR library functions - opens a file, writes 3G  
to it, and then seeks around inside and checks to see if the returned  
offset is still sane.  Pleasingly, it seems to be.

  I haven't tested this on anything except simulated x86 Linux.  I  
didn't test it with Buffered IO, because I don't think SVN uses it.   
If anyone can let me know if it fixes their problem, that'd be great,  
but I'm not really enthusiastic about recommending it until someone  
double checks it for me.  I don't want the blood of any corrupted  
repositories on my hands.

  Build procedure is:
     * tar xvfz subversion-1.0.9.tar.gz
     * cd subversion-1.0.9/apr
     * patch -p1 < ( apr patch )
     * autoconf
     * ./configure --enable-largefile
     * make
     * cd ../subversion
     * patch -p2 < ( subversion patch )
     * ./configure etc etc as normal.

  Hope it's of some use to someone.

  Bryn.