On Apr 25, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:15:47PM -0700, Andy Peters wrote: >> Hello, list ... >> >> I just updated a server from 1.6.3 to 1.6.11, running on Fedora 7. I >> didn't do a dump and load on the repository. >> >> When running svnadmin hotcopy on the repo, I get a complaint about >> file fsfs.conf not found. When I looked in the repo, I didn't see this >> file, so that explains the error. But what has changed between 1.6.3 >> and 1.6.11 that would cause this error, and better yet, how do I fix >> it? > > There was a bug in versions prior to 1.6.11 which caused fsfs.conf > not to be copied during hotcopy (it had simply been forgotten). > > From http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/CHANGES : > > Version 1.6.11 > (19 Apr 2010, from /branches/1.6.x) > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.6.11 > > User-visible changes: > [...] > * make 'svnadmin hotcopy' copy the fsfs config file (r905303) > > Since you hotcopied your repository with versions of Subversion > which had the bug, you lost your fsfs.conf (probably some time ago). > > Now svnadmin complains if the file isn't there. But you can easily > recreate it. Either copy it from a freshly created repository, > or create an empty file called fsfs.conf (either way will give you > the default configuration). > > I'd rather not make this error non-fatal because people might be > relying on fsfs.conf and not realise that it has disappeared. > > Stefan
Perfect! I found some examples online and it seems like the options offered by fsfs.conf don't apply to me, so I simply created an empty file and that all works now. Thanks, -a
