On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:46:05AM +0200, Tobias Bading wrote: > Hi, > > follow-up regarding my problems with "database is locked" errors when trying > to access a Subversion 1.8 working copy located on an AIX machine remotely > via > SMB from a GNU/Linux machine: > > - A Windows SMB share causes the same errors, so it's not specific to Samba. > > - The problem can be circumvented by mounting the SMB share with option > 'nobrl'. From the mount.cifs(8) man page: > > nobrl > Do not send byte range lock requests to the server. This is > necessary > for certain applications that break with cifs style mandatory byte > range locks (and most cifs servers do not yet support requesting > advisory byte range locks). > > I'm currently giving the 'nobrl' option in combination with > > [working-copy] > exclusive-locking-clients = svn > > in ~/.subversion/config a try. So far it seems to work just fine. :-) > > Tobias
Hi Tobias, That's very nice! Would be able to prepare a patch against our FAQ to document this? Perhaps this entry could be extended: http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#nfs Source code of the website is here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/site/publish/