I have a subversion repo exposed through mod_dav_svn and the option
"SVNAutoversioning on" and am using fusefs with davfs2 to mount the repo
on my linux desktop fedora 15.
This usually allows webDAV clients to make changes to files without a
checkout-edit-commit cycle, and this works well for some subset of the
repository for convenience. In this instance I am using subversion for
centralized versioning rather than source control.
The server intermittently zeroes out the files, either geany/gedit
offers a reload (which I have learned is a no-no) and the file reloaded
is empty. I thought it might be something to do with gtk temp files, but
it is replicable with vi or kate.
If I edit a file in vi, here is the example of the success confirmation;
"mnt/here/bootstrap.d/edited-file"
110L, 4077C written
and listing confirms that the file has non-zero size;
> ls -la mnt/here/bootstrap.d/edited-file
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 4.0K Jan 11 07:42 mnt/here/bootstrap.d/edited-file
however a couple of seconds later the listing is changed showing the
zeroing of the file
> ls -la mnt/here/bootstrap.d/edited-file
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 0 Jan 11 07:42
mnt/here/bootstrap.d/edited-file/chef-client
The svn repo log shows a couple of transactions that are presumably
responsible.
==> svn.limepepper.co.uk-error.log <==
[Wed Jan 11 01:47:06 2012] [info] [client 87.194.yyy.xxx] Access
granted: 'service' MOVE
projects:/some/path/in/repo/this-file-gets-zeroed
projects:/some/path/in/repo/this-file-gets-zeroed~
[Wed Jan 11 01:47:06 2012] [info] [client 87.194.yyy.xxx] Access
granted: 'service' MOVE
projects:/some/path/in/repo/this-file-gets-zeroed~
projects:/some/path/in/repo/this-file-gets-zeroed~
[Wed Jan 11 01:47:06 2012] [info] [client 87.194.yyy.xxx] Access
granted: 'service' GET projects:/some/path/in/repo
[Wed Jan 11 01:47:06 2012] [info] [client 87.194.yyy.xxx] Access
granted: 'service' GET projects:/some/path/in/repo
[Wed Jan 11 01:47:06 2012] [info] [client 87.194.yyy.xxx] Access
granted: 'service' GET projects:/some/path/in/repo
[Wed Jan 11 01:47:06 2012] [info] [client 87.194.yyy.xxx] Access
granted: 'service' HEAD projects:/some/path/in/repo/this-file-gets-zeroed~
[Wed Jan 11 01:47:07 2012] [info] [client 87.194.yyy.xxx] Access
granted: 'service' LOCK projects:/some/path/in/repo/this-file-gets-zeroed
==> svn_logfile <==
[11/Jan/2012:01:47:07 -0600] service lock
(/some/path/in/repo/this-file-gets-zeroed)
==> svn.limepepper.co.uk-error.log <==
[Wed Jan 11 01:47:07 2012] [info] [client 87.194.yyy.xxx] Access
granted: 'service' DELETE projects:/some/path/in/repo/this-file-gets-zeroed~
[Wed Jan 11 01:47:07 2012] [info] [client 87.194.yyy.xxx] Access
granted: 'service' GET projects:/some/path/in/repo
[Wed Jan 11 01:47:19 2012] [info] [client 87.194.yyy.xxx] Access
granted: 'service' PUT projects:/some/path/in/repo/this-file-gets-zeroed
[Wed Jan 11 01:47:20 2012] [info] [client 87.194.yyy.xxx] Access
granted: 'service' UNLOCK projects:/some/path/in/repo/this-file-gets-zeroed
==> svn_logfile <==
[11/Jan/2012:01:47:20 -0600] service unlock
(/some/path/in/repo/this-file-gets-zeroed)
The svn repo DAV is mounted as;
http://myserver/pathtorepo on /home/me/mnt/mountedhere type fuse
(rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=500,group_id=500,allow_other,max_read=16384)
The server details are;
# rpm -qa | egrep "httpd|mod_|subversion|dav|neon"
httpd-tools-2.2.17-1.fc14.i686
httpd-2.2.17-1.fc14.i686
mod_auth_mysql-3.0.0-12.fc14.i686
mod_perl-2.0.4-11.fc14.i686
mod_python-3.3.1-14.fc14.i686
httpd-manual-2.2.17-1.fc14.noarch
subversion-libs-1.6.17-1.fc14.i686
subversion-1.6.17-1.fc14.i686
mod_dav_svn-1.6.17-1.fc14.i686
neon-0.29.5-1.fc14.i686
mod_ssl-2.2.17-1.fc14.i686
Any suggestions on what might be the problem. (I dont see this setup as
a long term development environment, but it is convenient -except when
it trashes the config files ... )
Thanks
Tom
