Mathias Weinert wrote on Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 14:59:23 +0200: > Hi, > > each time when I am loading a certain dump file on Windows which > contains one revision with over 100K changed paths I get the error > "Can't open file > 'c:\Repositories\test\db\transactions\5445-479.txn\next-ids': The > requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped > section open.". After looking at the mailing list archives and other > mailing lists I found out that I am not the only one to encounter > this problem and that in most cases a virus scanner was the cause of > the problem. And indeed, adding next-ids to the exclusion list > solved the problem. > > But now I wonder if svnadmin couldn't handle this case a bit more > elegantly. IMHO it would make sense not to quit the load immediately > but to try it again maybe after waiting half a second or so if this > specific error occurs (some other users reported that they got the > error "The process cannot access the file because it is being used > by another process."). If we can't access next-ids after trying it > let's say 5 times with a little pause after each try we still can > quit the load process. > > What do you think about this idea? >
It would be good to solve this now as that is one of the concerns with the (partially implemented) design for revprop packing, due for release in 1.8. > Cheers, > Mathias >