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/

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