I finally wrote a simple script to remove dead transactions older than 1 week. It worked great, but there appears to be a few old TXNs that are somehow corrupted/malformed.
Any issues with just going into the fsfs db/transactions directory and removing the offending named directory manually? Using fsfs svn 1.6.12 and mod_dav_svn on windows. (Some of these transactions were probably created with older versions.) All 21k revisions verify fine, but svnlook does report an error: H:\svn\repos>svnadmin lstxns the_repo 77-1 H:\svn\repos>svnlook info the_repo -t 77-1 svnlook: Malformed file H:\svn\repos>dir 787_displays_repo\db\transactions\77-1.txn Directory of H:\svn\repos\the_repo\db\transactions\77-1.txn 05/21/2008 10:59 AM <DIR> . 05/21/2008 10:59 AM <DIR> .. 05/21/2008 10:59 AM 0 changes 05/21/2008 10:59 AM 4 next-ids 05/21/2008 10:59 AM 153 node.0.0 05/21/2008 10:59 AM 0 props 05/21/2008 10:59 AM 0 rev 05/21/2008 10:59 AM 0 rev-lock 6 File(s) 157 bytes 2 Dir(s) 64,575,000,576 bytes free H:\svn\repos>type the_repo\db\transactions\77-1.txn\next-ids 0 0 H:\svn\repos>type the_repo\db\transactions\77-1.txn\node.0.0 id: 0.0.t77-1 type: dir pred: 0.0.r77/37863 count: 78 text: 77 37752 98 98 55b9c9a8be05671d26f80ae39de656c0 cpath: / copyroot: 0 / is-fresh-txn-root: y I have some other repos with transactions with similar errors and also other ones with slightly different errors. The repos themselves verify, dump, and load fine, the data itself is stored on an enterprise SAN. No filesystem corruption found. The other errors: svnlook: Can't open file 'H:\svn\repos\the_repo2\db\transactions\2700-2.txn\pr ops': The system cannot find the file specified. H:\svn\repos>dir the_repo2\db\transactions\2700-2.txn Directory of H:\svn\repos\the_repo2\db\transactions\2700-2.txn 11/27/2007 02:08 AM <DIR> . 11/27/2007 02:08 AM <DIR> .. 0 File(s) 0 bytes 2 Dir(s) 64,568,352,768 bytes free svnlook: Corrupt node-revision '0.0.t33407-bp8' svnlook: Missing id field in node-rev H:\svn\repos>dir the_repo3\db\transactions\33407-bp8.txn Directory of H:\svn\repos\the_repo3\db\transactions\33407-bp8.txn 11/06/2009 12:46 PM <DIR> . 11/06/2009 12:46 PM <DIR> .. 11/06/2009 12:46 PM 0 changes 11/06/2009 12:46 PM 4 next-ids 11/06/2009 12:46 PM 182 node.0.0 11/06/2009 12:46 PM 216 props 4 File(s) 402 bytes 2 Dir(s) 64,568,352,768 bytes free (next-ids and node.0.0 just contain nulls. props contains the actual property data.) thanks! Kevin R.